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Is It Normal For Them To Cry And Not Like Themselves? It Use To Be Just Once In A While. Now It Is 2 Or 4 Times A Week.
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My husband has vascular dementia and alzheimer’s

posted March 20
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Crying can be a sign of depression, and/or it can also be a neurological condition called "Pseudobulbar Affect" which can occur with strokes, dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, traumatic brain injuries, ALS, MS, etc.

Here's a link to some good basic information from Mayo Clinic:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/...

And also a link to a more detailed article from the National Library of Medicine, which includes a section titled "Treatment" that might be helpful to you.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC60...

Pseudobulbar affect - Symptoms and causes
Pseudobulbar affect - Symptoms and causes
The epidemiology and pathophysiology of pseudobulbar affect and its association with neurodegeneration
The epidemiology and pathophysiology of pseudobulbar affect and its association with neurodegeneration
posted March 20
A myALZteam Member

Thank you.

posted March 21

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