“Update to Pseudobulbar affect (suddenly emotions of crying/laughing without control)” |Biomedgrid

An “suddenly emotional” is when the simplest things like a simple comment or opinion of someone, a song, a memory, a TV commercial, a harsh word, or even a wayward perception, is all it takes for a person to be drowning in tears, or switch to an exaggerated laughing. These could be an indication of somebody could have “Pseudobulbar affect”, this is a is a disorder that is characterized by episodes of sudden uncontrollable inappropriate laughing and/or crying. “Pseudobulbar affect” typically occurs in people with certain neurological conditions as brain disorders or injuries, which might affect the way the brain controls emotion. The “Pseudobulbar affect (PBA)” are emotions that leaves as fast as they come, making the affected person embarrassed when they spoke publicly, and they start crying or laughing.