Wikipedia: pseudobulbar palsy
Pseudobulbar palsy is bilateral impairment of the function of the lower cranial
nerves 9, 10, 11 and 12 due to upper motor neurone lesion of the
bulbar muscles from lesions of the corticobulbar
pathways in the pyramidal tract .
Causes
Symptoms
These include:
Signs
These include:
Bulbar palsy is a similar disorder but is caused by lower motor neurone
lesions
See also
External links
Nervous system pathology , primarily CNS (G00-G47 ,
320-349 )
Inflammatory diseasesCNS Meningitis
(Arachnoiditis ) - Encephalitis - Myelitis - Encephalomyelitis (Acute disseminated ) - Tropical
spastic paraparesis
Systemic atrophies
Huntington's disease - Spinocerebellar ataxia
(Friedreich's ataxia , Ataxia
telangiectasia , Hereditary spastic paraplegia )Spinal muscular atrophy : Werdnig-Hoffman disease - Kugelberg-Welander
disease - Fazio Londe syndrome -MND (Amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS), Progressive muscular atrophy (PMA),
Progressive bulbar , Pseudobulbar ,
PLS )
Extrapyramidal andParkinson's
disease - Neuroleptic malignant syndrome - Postencephalitic parkinsonism - Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration - Progressive supranuclear palsy - Striatonigral degeneration - Dystonia (Spasmodic torticollis , Meige's syndrome ,
Blepharospasm ) - Essential tremor -
Myoclonus - Chorea - Restless legs syndrome - Stiff person
syndrome
Other degenerative /demyelinating diseases
Alzheimer's disease - Pick's disease - Alpers' disease - Dementia with Lewy bodies -
Leigh's disease - Multiple sclerosis -
Devic's disease - Central pontine
myelinolysis - Transverse myelitis
Seizure /epilepsy Focal (Simple partial , Complex partial ) -
Generalised (Tonic-clonic ,
Absence , Atonic , Benign familial neonatal ) - Lennox-Gastaut - West - Epilepsia partialis continua - Status
epilepticus (Complex partial status epilepticus )
Headache Migraine
(Familial hemiplegic ) - Cluster -
Vascular - Tension
Vascular
Transient ischemic
attack (Amaurosis fugax , Transient
global amnesia ) - Cerebrovascular disease (MCA , ACA , PCA , Foville's syndrome , Millard-Gubler syndrome , Lateral medullary
syndrome , Weber's syndrome , Lacunar
stroke )
Sleep disorders Insomnia - Hypersomnia - Sleep
apnea (Ondine's curse ) - Narcolepsy -
Cataplexy - Kleine-Levin syndrome
Other
Hydrocephalus
(Normal pressure ) - Idiopathic intracranial hypertension - Encephalopathy - Brain herniation - Cerebral edema - Reye's syndrome - Syringomyelia - Syringobulbia - Spinal cord compression
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