What you’re witnessing is called Pseudobulbar affect (PBA). This is a neurological condition caused by damage to the brain from strokes that can cause inappropriate laughing and/or crying.

While Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has no cure, five prescription medicines have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat disease symptoms that impact thinking and memory.

Patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) experience a slow progressive decline in memory and cognitive ability, among other symptoms, due to the spread of damage in the brain. Generally, the disease is ...

The technological solution involves unscrambling by electronic transcoders. Donald Duck-like speech is described to occur after pseudobulbar dysarthria in which speech gains a high-pitched ...

Can it be that we were cheering on athletes at the Olympics only a few months ago? Where did the summer go? Looking back, I realize I spent most of my summer and early fall months distracted by the ...

A newly awarded grant from the ALS Association will support Asha Therapeutics‘ work to advance ASHA-624, a small molecule being developed for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), into a first-in-human ...

bCentre Hospitalier Universitaire Bordeaux, Service de Neurologie des Maladies Neurodégénératives, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives Clinique, French Clinical Research Network for Parkinson's ...

1 Department of Neurology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Neuropathology, Vrije Universiteit Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr John C.