Pathological laughter and crying

Pseudobulbar affect - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is a condition that's characterized by episodes of sudden uncontrollable and inappropriate laughing or crying.

Pathological laughing and crying : epidemiology, pathophysiology ...

Pathological laughing and crying (PLC) is characterized by frequent, brief, intense paroxysms of uncontrollable crying and/or laughing due to a neurological ...

Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA): Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is a neurological condition that causes outbursts of uncontrolled or inappropriate laughing or crying.

Pseudobulbar affect - Wikipedia

Pseudobulbar affect (PBA), or emotional incontinence, is a type of neurological disorder characterized by uncontrollable episodes of crying or laughing.

Pathological laughter and crying: A link to the cerebellum

The traditional and currently accepted view is that PLC is due to the damage of pathways that arise in the motor areas of the cerebral cortex and descend to the ...

Pathological laughter and crying in neurological disorders

Pathological laughter and crying is a type of affect lability characterised by sudden, frequent and uncontrollable episodes of crying or laughing, often ...

Diagnosis and Management of Pathological Laughter and Crying

This article focuses on the clinical presentation, diagnosis, prevalence, and proposed pathophysiological mechanisms of and available treatment options for ...

Pseudobulbar affect (pathological laughing and crying) - MS Trust

Some people with multiple sclerosis find that they experience sudden episodes of uncontrollable laughing and/or crying at inappropriate ...

Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA): Symptoms, Causes, & Treatment - WebMD

Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is a nervous system disorder that can make you laugh, cry, or become angry without being able to control when it happens.

Neuroanatomy of pathological laughing and crying - PubMed

Pathological laughing and crying (PLC) is a clinical condition that occurs in patients with various neurological disorders. It is characterized by the ...

Pathological Crying - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

Pathologic laughing or crying is also known as pseudobulbar affect or emotional incontinence. Patients have episodes of laughing or crying that are out of ...

How to Treat and Manage a Laughing Disorder - Verywell Health

What Is Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA)? ... PBA is uncontrolled crying or laughing that is above the expected response to the emotion felt or situation ...

Pathological Crying - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

Pathologic laughter and crying (PLC) refers to sudden bursts of laughter or crying typically without consistent affect or an appropriate precipitant.

Pathological laughter and crying: insights from lesion network ...

Abstract. The study of pathological laughter and crying (PLC) allows insights into the neural basis of laughter and crying, two hallmarks of ...

Neuroanatomy of Pathological Laughing and Crying: A Report of the ...

The emotional expression of laughing or crying is “pathologically” exaggerated in intensity and frequency compared with the patient's premorbid baseline.

Pathological Crying and Laughing in Motor Neuron Disease - Frontiers

Pathological crying and laughing is a shared symptom of many neurological conditions across infective, vascular, inflammatory, and neurodegenerative etiologies.

PATHOLOGIC LAUGHING AND CRYING - JAMA Network

The occurrence of affective responses, such as involuntary laughing or crying, associated with lesions of the nervous system has been the topic of several.

Brainstem Correlates of Pathological Laughter and Crying ... - Frontiers

Pseudobulbar affect is a disorder of emotional expression commonly observed in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), presenting as episodes of involuntary ...

Pathological Laughing and Crying Post-stroke: Liaison Psychiatrist ...

PLC is a clinical condition that occurs in patients with various neurological disorders. The majority of evidence relates to stroke patients.

Diagnosis and Management of Pathological Laughter and Crying

In contrast, patients with mood disorders have a pervasive and sustained change in their emotional experience and thus exhibit spells of laughter or crying ...