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Also known as pseudobulbar affect, emotional lability refers to an exaggeration of laughing crying, or yawning beyond what the person feels. For instance, a person feels the same emotion as usual at a movie but the laughing or crying is louder, longer and difficult to control. This is caused by the disease and is not related to the patients' psychological or emotional states. Read more...Click to read more below


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Symptom Severities

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Treatments Patients Take For Emotional lability

Treatments Patients Take For Emotional lability
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Amitriptyline 13 1% Amitriptyline: 1%
Sertraline 10 1% Sertraline: 1%
Citalopram 9 1% Citalopram: 1%
Quinidine/dextromethorphan 8 1% Quinidine/dextromethorphan: 1%
Fluoxetine 6 1% Fluoxetine: 1%
Paroxetine 4 0% Paroxetine: 0%
Prayer 4 0% Prayer: 0%
Escitalopram 3 0% Escitalopram: 0%
Venlafaxine 3 0% Venlafaxine: 0%
Bupropion 2 0% Bupropion: 0%
Clonazepam 2 0% Clonazepam: 0%
Lamotrigine 2 0% Lamotrigine: 0%
Alprazolam 1 0% Alprazolam: 0%
AVP-923 (DM/Q) 1 0% AVP-923 (DM/Q): 0%
Bi-PAP Humidifier 1 0% Bi-PAP Humidifier: 0%
Cannabis 1 0% Cannabis: 0%
Citalopram Hydrobromide 1 0% Citalopram Hydrobromide: 0%
Diazepam 1 0% Diazepam: 0%
Duloxetine 1 0% Duloxetine: 0%
Guaifenesin 1 0% Guaifenesin: 0%
Marinol 1 0% Marinol: 0%
Meditation 1 0% Meditation: 0%
Memantine 1 0% Memantine: 0%
Nortriptyline 1 0% Nortriptyline: 0%
Quinine Sulfate 1 0% Quinine Sulfate: 0%
Robitussin 1 0% Robitussin: 0%
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