The condition has been variously been known as emotional lability, emotional incontinence, pathological laughing and crying, or uncontrollable laughing and crying, in addition to pseudobulbar affect.
Within the past two years, three medications have been approved specifically for M.S. symptoms: Ampyra to improve walking, Nuedexta for uncontrollable laughing or crying, and Botox for urinary incontinence and spasticity in upper limbs.
Avanir hopes that the drug, Neurodex, will win federal approval by the end of this year as a treatment for the uncontrollable laughing or crying that can be caused by various neurological diseases or injuries.
Production was frequently delayed due to uncontrollable laughing fits between Hepburn and Grant.
But the person who enjoyed Trump's latest rhetorical gymnastics was none other than Rush Limbaugh, who opened his show Wednesday with an uncontrollable laughing fit.
Missing pool items addressing possible emotional changes or loss of control sometimes experienced in the aftermath of trauma or loss were identified and consequently also included into the item pool (i.e. items such as "acting inappropriately giddy or silly"; "uncontrollable laughing, crying, or screaming"; and "not feeling normally remorseful").
(Watch for surprised or panicky facial expressions, listen for squeals, screams, uncontrollable laughing and the tell-tale pleading, begging, demands and threats, and feel for sudden increased spasmodic body movement and struggling).
Many readers will be familiar with the difficulty of extinguishing their own "laugh jags", fits of nearly uncontrollable laughter.
The classroom just dissolves into uncontrollable laughter.
