Pseudobulbar palsy, also known as involuntary emotional expression disorder, is a condition that affects your ability to control of the muscles in your face (including your jaw). The muscles in your ...

There are a number of chronic neurological disorders that exhibit pseudobulbar or bulbar palsy (dysarthria and dysphagia) and in which mutism supervenes. In pseudobulbar palsy there are bilateral ...

Progressive bulbar palsy is a motor neuron disorder that involves the lower motor neurons. These neurons conduct messages from the brain stem and spinal cord to the brain. Initially, patients with ...

When you take a walk, talk to a friend, or chew a piece of food, motor neurons are behind these movements. Just like other parts of your body, they can become damaged. You may have heard of ALS, ...

Researchers have identified a new variant form of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) that is characterised by prominent acute bulbar palsy without neck or limb weakness. The fact that acute bulbar palsy ...

BLAIRSVILLE — In July 2023, Leslie McCracken noticed an issue with her speech, prompting her to see a doctor. It was seven months later when she was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and ...

WITH the focuses of high incidence of motor-neuron disease now known in the Chamorro and Carolinian populations in the Mariana Islands of Micronesia 1–3 and on the Kii Peninsula of Japan, 4 it has for ...