Uncontrolled+Laughter

UNCONTROLLED LAUGHTER AND MIRTH

Frontal lobe injury can result in very childish and puerile manner: -Laughing at the most trivial of things -Making inappropriate jokes -Teasing -Engaging total strangers in hilarious conversation -Pathological laughter, joking, and punning may occur superimposed upon a labile effect. -Many are vastly amused by their own jokes

In part, frontal lobe humor is a function of tangentiality and disinhibition. Loosely connected ideas are strung together in an unusual fashion. The tendency to exaggerate and to impulsively comment upon whatever draws their attention is also contributory, and their humor and laughter may have a contagious quality.

Rather than funny, the humor can seem crude and inappropriate. They may laugh without reason and with no accompanying feelings of mirth. They were unable to stop their laughter on command or upon their own volition. Laughter can come on like spells, occurring up to a dozen times a day, and/or continue into the night, requiring sedation in some cases. -Some instances the laughter can have no contagious aspects but seem shrill and "frozen." When questioned about the laughter, they may either confabulate a reason for their mirth, or seem completely perplexed as to the cause.

Chinese Medical Perspective
Uncontrollable laughter if most commonly associated in Chinese medicine with the condition of Heart Heat or Heart Fire and Phlegm Fire Clouding the Shen where fire is more predominant than the phlegm component. Other common associated symptoms include

Heat/Fire Signs
-Fever, -Sleeplessness -Dark Urine -Red Face/Eyes

Phlegm Signs
-Gurgling Sounds in Throat -Sticky Yellow Phlegm -Course Breathing

Shen Signs
-Ascending to High Places & Singing -Yelling, Fighting, Swearing, Scolding -Uncontrollable Chaotic Movements -Psychotic & Uncontrollable Crying/Laughter -Running Naked -Digestion -No Hunger -Constipation

Acupuncture Treatment:
Excessive laughter and singing and frenetic speech: ST-36 Habitual Laughter: LU-7, St-40 Excessive laughter or sobbing: HT-7
 * Deadman:** PC-7
 * Rossi:** Emptiness of Spleen Yang, emptiness of Kidney Yin, Heart Heat: GV-20-> GV-21, PC-7, SP-1 + Gan Mai Da Zao Tang
 * Solie De Morant:**