Most brain injury patients 'suffer pseudobulbar affect'RSS Feed

The majority of brain injury sufferers in the US also experience involuntary outbursts of laughing or crying, according to the results of a survey.

It was found by the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) that almost eighty per cent of individuals with brain injury also suffered from the additional neurological condition known as the pseudobulbar affect.

Additionally, 35 per cent of individuals with the condition reported that the episodes are extremely of very burdensome.

Susan Connors, president and chief executive officer of the BIAA, said that many people do not realise that their brain injury is only the beginning of an ongoing neurological disease.

"Pseudobulbar affect is a misunderstood and under diagnosed, yet separate and treatable medical condition," she added.

Meanwhile, researchers from the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System and the University of Minnesota Medical School have found that long term psychosocial symptoms and mild traumatic brain injury are not associated unless post-traumatic stress disorder also occurs.

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