Laughing Doctor

[zenman]

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What the heck's wrong with a person that laughs all the time? This doctor never stops. She will be talking about a benign subject such as bringing her spouse lunch and will be laughing like it's a real rib-tickler. Is it more of a habit...anxiety? Driving me crazy!

 

[musm2008]

maybe she has an amygdala lesion

 

[PsychMD2100]

Despite being annoying, does it impair her ability to function in any significant sphere of her life, ie work, personal life?

 

[watto]

Witzelsucht: frequent childish jokes and puns, seen in frontotemporal dementia (not saying she has it, just one of my favorite psych terms at the moment, I am diagnosing all my friends with it).

http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/17/3/429

 

[PsychMD2100]

Thanks Watto!

I always appreciate being able to learn something new.

 

[Doctor Bagel]

maybe she has an amygdala lesion

Or it's an aprosodia related to right hemisphere damage. Or left hemisphere damage I guess because she had trouble following display rules. So, yeah, she's broken. 🙂

So people who tell bad jokes all the time have frontotemporal dementia? Makes sense. 😎

 

[Doc Samson]

Witzelsucht: frequent childish jokes and puns, seen in frontotemporal dementia (not saying she has it, just one of my favorite psych terms at the moment, I am diagnosing all my friends with it).

http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/17/3/429

Great term, but I'd say she's presenting with another symptom of FTD (often seen with witzelsucht): moria - childish euphoria and cheerful excitement

 

[zenman]

She functions ok; just finished her residency a year or so ago. Haven't heard her tell any jokes. Just a really annoying person...will come pick up stuff off your desk, look at your PC screen, really noisy individual. I'm figuring a bitch slap would be appropriate, lol!😀

 

[PsyKardinal]

Witzelsucht


All of my geriatric dementia patients have now been diagnosed with this, only because I really like the word. *sarcasm, I really do like the word*

Jeff