Prevalence of pseudobulbar affect symptoms and clinical correlates ...

Pseudobulbar affect symptoms were present in 17.5% of nursing home residents with neurological conditions, and 9.0% of residents overall.

The purposes of this study were to estimate the prevalence of PBA in US nursing home residents and examine the relationship between PBA symptoms and other ...

Prevalence of pseudobulbar affect symptoms and clinical correlates ...

Prevalence of pseudobulbar affect symptoms and clinical correlates in nursing home residents. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2016 07; 31(7):694-701. View in: PubMed.

Prevalence of pseudobulbar affect symptoms and clinical correlates ...

4, 9 A study in a nursing home in the United States found 44% of patients with neurocognitive diseases experienced pseudobulbar affect. 4 Study ...

About Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA) | NUEDEXTA® | HCP Site

What is PBA? · PBA symptoms are prevalent in patients with various underlying neurologic conditions · Presence of PBA laughing and/or crying symptoms in select ...

Pseudobulbar Affect in Parkinsonian Disorders: A Review

One study of clinic-based movement disorders patients using a pilot PBA screening tool found the prevalence of PBA to be 4.7% in idiopathic PD ...

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry | Wiley Online Library

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

PRISM: A Novel Research Tool to Assess the Prevalence of ... - PLOS

Data from PRISM, the largest clinic-based study to assess PBA symptom prevalence, showed that PBA symptoms were common among patients with diverse neurological ...

Identification of pseudobulbar affect symptoms in the nursing home ...

Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA) is a neurologic condition characterized by involuntary outbursts of laughing and/or crying incongruous with, or disproportionate to, ...

Pseudobulbar Affect Correlates With Mood Symptoms in ...

Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is a syndrome of affective disturbance associated with inappropriate laughter and crying, independent of mood.

Pseudobulbar affect: the spectrum of clinical presentations ...

Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) consists of uncontrollable outbursts of laughter or crying inappropriate to the patient's external circumstances.

Prevalence of Pseudobulbar Affect following Stroke: A Systematic ...

PBA is a common condition that affects approximately 1 in 5 stroke survivors at the acute and postacute phases, and 1 in 8 survivors beyond 6 months post ...

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

In the current study, 54% of ALS patients met the clinical cut-off for pseudobulbar affect on the CNS-LS (16, 19). This prevalence rate in seemingly unselected ...

Pseudobulbar Affect in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic ...

Based on conservative figures available from 8/16 studies, the prevalence of PBA in the context of MS was found to range between 2% and 10% (median 10%), with ...

Introduction to Pseudobulbar Affect: Setting the Stage for ...

Pseudobulbar affect (PBA), despite its prevalence and distinctive symptoms, is widely underrecognized and undertreated. It is characterized by ...

Prevalence and Factors Related to Pathological Laughter ... - Frontiers

Pseudobulbar affect correlates with mood symptoms in parkinsonian disorders but not amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. J Neuropsychiatry Clin ...

Pseudobulbar Affect Symptoms in Nursing Home Patients with ...

Forty-four percent of individuals screened positive for PBA symptoms. Depressive symptoms were found among 23% of these patients. Not only were ...

Review of Pseudobulbar Affect Including a Novel and Potential ...

Traumatic Brain Injury ... One study of 301 consecutive cases in a clinic setting reported a 5% prevalence. ... PBA occurred in patients with more ...

Diagnosis and Management of Pathological Laughter and Crying

The most widely used terms are pseudobulbar affect, pathological laughter and crying, emotional lability, emotionalism, and emotional dysregulation. Terms such ...

A Novel Research Tool to Assess the Prevalence of Pseudobulbar ...

When PBA symptoms are evaluated, they may be mischaracterized as a mood disorder such as depression, although PBA is clinically distinct from ...