Pseudobulbar Affect
 

Anyone been through this? What were the first signs for you?

Cindy,
I actually did a study from a group here that pays medical professionals about different drugs and their uses. I don't know why or how I was chosen to be in this group, but they sent me some information and a very interesting website about pseudobulbar affect. I can get the information for you when I return to the office next week. It's very common in MS and stroke patients-much more so than most physicians are diagnosing it. There are quite a number of medications that they are testing for it at present. Most patients when asked believed that they were depressed when indeed it was not depression. These patients often have innappropriate laughing and crying spells. It was quite interesting to learn about it. Let me know if you'd like the website or any information I can send to you.

*I also got a lovely pen from the drug company that has a purple light on the end of it when you write with it*

Thanks, Marg, I'm only vaguely familiar with it from reading; I'm also interested in hearing from anyone who has actually been dx with it.

Di, darling. Is there a stroke survivor's group on here? Perhaps you can go over there and ask some of them if they've ever been diagnosed with it. From what I remember, it was more commonly diagnosed in post-stroke patients. It seemed to me also that there were more females effected than males. I would check out the post-stroke forums and see what you can seek out.

GOOD LUCK!!!:)

I've seen sparky post about this a number of times. I think she took Lexapro to modulate.

I just did a search. Now I recall, it's referred to as IEED. This seems to be the only post about it on here.

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...fect#post44754

Thanks, Chris, I found some more general info on some of the more common websites. Also, some interesting professional journal articles in the databases via my regional library.

I'm boning up on my Latin and learning a lot.

Doesn't this cause dysarthria? Dysarthria is not that uncommon for many neurological conditions (disease or trauma related).

Hi, Trish. I'm a mere layperson so I won't venture to answer that. I haven't seen anything that directly gives cause/effect attributes on dysarthria. I was looking at this book, Handbook of Neuropsychology and Aging By Paul David Nussbaum, and it does show a lot of correlations with MS, stroke, ALS and others.

My medicalese is not even a little good enough to draw conclusions from my limited reading.:o

Dysarthria is a speech issue. It has to do with muscular control that has been impaired by nerve damage. A lot of ALS patients have it as that is a neuromuscular disease. (DBF's step-dad has ALS and has the dysarthria as well. He also has swallowing issues too.).

A lot of the patient's from the rehab hospital I type for have this. I also had seen it quite often in the hospital when I was working there.