A Boy Laughed at Nothing for Two Years, and His Brain Scan Came Back Completely Normal
The eight-year-old had been having episodes for two years before the diagnosis landed. Some were obvious: he would lose consciousness, fall, or stop mid-activity and stare. Others looked like nothing at all. He would simply start laughing, at nothing, and then stop. The laughing was the seizure. Doctors at the Federal Medical Centre in Umuahia,…