Behaviour, physiology and experience of pathological laughing and crying in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Brain

Volumn 134, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3455-3466

  Olney, Nicholas T ^a   Goodkind, Madeleine S ^b   Lomen Hoerth, Catherine ^c   Whalen, Patrick K ^b   Williamson, Craig A ^a   Holley, Deborah E ^b   Verstaen, Alice ^b   Brown, Laurel M ^b   Miller, Bruce L ^c   Kornak, John ^d   Levenson, Robert W ^b   Rosen, Howard J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UCSF Department of Neurology   (United States)

^d UCSF Dept Epidemiol Biostatist   (United States)

Author keywords

affective neuroscience; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; behavioural neurology; pseudobulbar affect

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL CRYING; PATHOLOGICAL LAUGHTER; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SELF REPORT; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 83755205973     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awr297     Document Type: Conference Paper

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