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Treatment
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Signs and symptoms
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History
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- Causes
- Traumatic brain injury, ALS, multiple sclerosis, dementia
- Diagnostic method
- During a neurological evaluation
- Differential diagnosis
- Depression
- Duration
- Few seconds to several minutes
- Other names
- Emotional incontinence
- Specialty
- Neurology, psychiatry
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Overview
- Neurological disorder
- Crying
- Laughing Laughter
- Is a consequence Sequela
- Brain injury Brain damage
- Mood-incongruent Mood congruence
- Emotional lability
- Depression Depression (mood)
- Irritability
Signs and symptoms
- Emotional response Emotion
- Alzheimer's disease
- Traumatic brain injury
- Clinical depression Major depressive disorder
- Bipolar disorder
- Differential diagnosis
- Bipolar disorders Mood disorder
- Mood Mood (psychology)
Causes
- Corticobulbar tract
- Prefrontal cortex
- Neural networks Neural circuit
- Stroke
- Dementias Dementia
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Multiple sclerosis
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ALS
- Parkinson's disease
- Hyperthyroidism
- Graves' disease
- Hypothyroidism
- Brain tumors Brain tumor
- Wilson's disease
- Pseudobulbar palsy
- Encephalitides Encephalitis
- Gelastic Gelastic seizure
- Epilepsy
- Central pontine myelinolysis
- Olivopontinocerebellar atrophy Olivopontinocerebellar atrophy?action=edit&redlink=1
- Lipid storage diseases Lipid storage disorder
- Chemical exposure Toxicity
- Nitrous oxide
- Insecticides Insecticide
- Fou rire prodromique Fou rire prodromique?action=edit&redlink=1
- Angelman syndrome
- Behavioral disorders Emotional and behavioral disorders
Consequences
- Cerebral palsy
- Autism
- Migraines Migraine
- Coping mechanisms Coping
Treatment
- Antidepressants Antidepressant
- Sertraline
- Fluoxetine
- Citalopram
- Nortriptyline
- Amitriptyline
- Dextromethorphan/quinidine
- Fixed-dose combination
- ALS Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
History
Terminology
Society and culture
- Joker Joker (2019 film)
- Joaquin Phoenix
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Nodes72
Edges71
Triples43
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027778
Components1
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Pseudobulbar affect
Top relations
related to Society and culture · 4
Pseudobulbar affect → Arthur Fleck, Joaquin Phoenix, Joker, The
related to Terminology · 3
Pseudobulbar affect → Historically, Terms, The
related to External links · 2
Pseudobulbar affect → National Stroke Association, Pseudobulbar
Causes · 1
Pseudobulbar affect → Traumatic brain injury, ALS, multiple sclerosis, dementia
Diagnostic method · 1
Pseudobulbar affect → During a neurological evaluation
Differential diagnosis · 1
Pseudobulbar affect → Depression
Duration · 1
Pseudobulbar affect → Few seconds to several minutes
Other names · 1
Pseudobulbar affect → Emotional incontinence
Specialty · 1
Pseudobulbar affect → Neurology, psychiatry
Symptoms · 1
Pseudobulbar affect → Episodes of uncontrollable laughing, crying, or other emotional displays that may not match the patient's mental state
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Important terminology
pba emotional patients crying may episodes depression brain symptoms injury als neurological affect disorder uncontrollable disease one prevalence pseudobulbar laughing
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Pseudobulbar affect | Causes | Traumatic brain injury, ALS, multiple sclerosis, dementia | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pseudobulbar affect | Diagnostic method | During a neurological evaluation | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pseudobulbar affect | Differential diagnosis | Depression | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pseudobulbar affect | Duration | Few seconds to several minutes | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pseudobulbar affect | Other names | Emotional incontinence | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pseudobulbar affect | Specialty | Neurology, psychiatry | 1.00 | infobox |
| Pseudobulbar affect | Symptoms | Episodes of uncontrollable laughing, crying, or other emotional displays that may not match the patient's mental state | 1.00 | infobox |
| Wilson | instance of | established by early researchers | 0.80 | text |
| Oppenheim | instance of | established by early researchers | 0.80 | text |
| placed emphasis on the role of the corticobulbar pathways in modulating emotional expression in a top-down model | instance of | established by early researchers | 0.80 | text |
| and theorized that PBA occurs when bilateral lesions in the descending corticobulbar tract cause failure of voluntary control of emotion | instance of | established by early researchers | 0.80 | text |
| which leads to the disinhibition | instance of | established by early researchers | 0.80 | text |
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