Pseudobulbar affect: prevalence and quality of life impact in movement disorders

RE Strowd, MS Cartwright, MS Okun, I Haq… - Journal of …, 2010 - Springer
Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is an affective disinhibition syndrome characterized by sudden,
involuntary outbursts of inappropriate crying or laughing. We have previously reported the …

Pseudobulbar affect: an under-recognized and under-treated neurological disorder

SS Work, JA Colamonico, WG Bradley, RE Kaye - Advances in therapy, 2011 - Springer
Introduction Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is a neurologic syndrome of emotional affect
disinhibition, characterized by uncontrollable, exaggerated, and often inappropriate …

[HTML][HTML] Pseudobulbar affect in parkinsonian disorders: a review

M Hakimi, CW Maurer - Journal of movement disorders, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is a neurological symptom of inappropriate and uncontrollable
laughter or crying that occurs secondary to a variety of neurological conditions, including …

PRISM: a novel research tool to assess the prevalence of pseudobulbar affect symptoms across neurological conditions

BR Brooks, D Crumpacker, J Fellus, D Kantor… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is a neurological condition characterized by
involuntary, sudden, and frequent episodes of laughing and/or crying, which can be socially …

[PDF][PDF] Pseudobulbar affect in multiple sclerosis patients

V Vidović, MČ Rovazdi, O Kraml, VB Kes - Acta Clin Croat, 2015 - hrcak.srce.hr
The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of pseudobulbar affect (PBA) in
patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and to analyze the link between PBA and patient age …

Pseudobulbar affect: burden of illness in the USA

J Colamonico, A Formella, W Bradley - Advances in therapy, 2012 - Springer
Introduction Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is characterized by involuntary and uncontrollable
laughing and/or crying episodes, occurring secondary to neurological disease or injury. The …

Prevalence of pseudobulbar affect symptoms and clinical correlates in nursing home residents

K Foley, RT Konetzka, A Bunin… - International journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is a neurological disorder of emotional expression,
characterized by uncontrollable episodes of crying or laughing in patients with certain …

Diagnosing pseudobulbar affect in traumatic brain injury

W Engelman, FM Hammond… - … disease and treatment, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is defined by episodes of involuntary crying and/or laughing as a
result of brain injury or other neurological disease. Epidemiology studies show that 5.3 …

Validation of the CNS emotional lability scale for pseudobulbar affect (pathological laughing and crying) in multiple sclerosis patients

RA Smith, JE Berg, LE Pope… - Multiple Sclerosis …, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) or pathological laughing and crying (PLC) is a disorder of affect
that occurs in about 10% of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. The objective of this study was …

Inappropriate crying and laughing in Parkinson disease and movement disorders

MS Siddiqui, HH Fernandez, CW Garvan… - The World Journal of …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Objective. To examine in a pilot study inappropriate crying and laughing (also termed
pseudobulbar affect (PBA)) and underlying mood disturbances in a large clinic based …