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Pathological laughter and crying: A link to the cerebellum

... It is an uncommon symptom usually caused by bilateral, diffuse cerebral lesions. The current view is that it results from any lesion in the cortical ...

Pathologic Laughing and Crying Treated With Levodopa

Levodopa or amantadine hydrochloride was administered to 25 patients with pathologic laughing and/or crying. This symptom was markedly improved in ten.

Pseudobulbar Affect: An Emotional Mismatch - YouTube

It is sometimes referred to as emotional lability, pathological crying and laughing, or emotional incontinence. An episode of PBA can occur ...

Pathological laughter as prodromal manifestation of transient ...

IEED includes the syndromes of pathological laughing and crying (PLC) and emotional lability (EL). PLC is a rare disorder of emotional ...

Pathological laughter and crying: a link to the cerebellum. - Abstract

PLC is a disorder of emotional expression rather than a primary disturbance of feelings, and is thus distinct from mood disorders in which laughter and crying ...

Pseudobulbar Affect in Parkinsonian Disorders: A Review

The Pathological Laughing and Crying Scale (PLACS) is an 18-item questionnaire that has been validated for the assessment of PBA symptom ...

Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA) - American Stroke Association

Or there could be rapid switching between laughing and crying. Often there is understanding that the response does not match the feeling. The ...

Consensus from ALS and Motor Neuron Disease Scientific ... - SciELO

The prevalence of pseudobulbar affect/pathological laughter and crying (PBA/PLC) in ALS patients from 15 combined studies and 3906 patients was 27.4% (N = 1070) ...

“Update to Pseudobulbar affect (suddenly emotions of crying ...

a) “PBA or pathologic laughing/crying is defined as a disorder based on the disturb of normal function for emotional expressions, and not only ...

Pathological laughing and crying. - APA PsycNet

... Pathological Laughter and Crying Scale. The study's Ss differ from those previously reported regarding right hemisphere lesion, forced laughing, and ...

Why People Who Feel Calm Experience Pathological Laughter and ...

Here's one of the eerier conditions out there. Pathological laughter and crying can cause patients to go into fits of laughter, or tears, ...

Euphoria, Pathological Laughing and Crying - SpringerLink

Many literature data have described both euphoria and pathological laughing and crying in MS patients.Euphoria is considered a pathological condition when ...

Pseudobulbar affect: When patients laugh or cry, but don't know why

Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is a disorder of affective expression that manifests as stereotyped and frequent outbursts of crying (not limited to lacrimation) ...

Inappropriate laughter: Causes, treatments, and coping strategies

Pseudobulbar affect causes inappropriate emotional outbursts, including laughing or crying and sometimes both. It is one of the most common ...

49: Pathological Yawning, Laughing and Crying - Karger Publishers

Abstract. Yawning, laughing, and crying are normal physiological behaviors of humans in good health. As with all physiological behaviors, their deregulation can ...

Pathological laughing and crying in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Pathological laughing and crying (PLC) frequently occurs in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The etiology of the syndrome is unclear, but frontal ...

Pathological laughter - it's no joke | Headway

Paul's laughter is caused by something known as the Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA). Someone with PBA has involuntary bouts of crying, laughter or episodic anger.

Pathological laughing and crying - The Lancet

1. ... do not cover all the causes of the rare condition of pathological laughing and crying. Excessive lability of crying occurs in pseudobulbar ...

Pathological laughter and crying in patients with pontine lesions

mented in the medical literature, and has been at- tributed to various pathological processes occurring throughout the brain and brainstem.

Pseudobulbar laughter as a levodopa off phenomenon exacerbated ...

In Parkinson's disease (PD), pseudobulbar affect (PBA) can occur as a wearing off phenomenon, manifested usually as crying without emotionality.


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