New treatment helps control involuntary crying and laughing -- common in MS, ALS patients
Monday, April 19, 2010 - 05:21
in Health & Medicine
Pseudobulbar affect is a neurologic condition of involuntary, sudden and frequent episodes of laughing or crying, and is quite common in patients with underlying neurologic diseases or injuries, especially those with multiple sclerosis (MS) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Now, a new investigational treatment may help stop these involuntary outbursts.