Table 1.
Categorization of patients’ primary neurological conditions into disease groups (n).
| AD/dementia (n = 17) | MS (n = 223) | Stroke/CBVD (n = 51) | ALS/MND (n = 199) | TBI (n = 23) | PD/movement disorders (n = 23) | Other PBA (n = 17) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AD | 15 | MS | 223 | Stroke | 46 | ALS | 176 | TBI | 21 | PD | 11 | Cerebellar ataxia | 3 |
| Frontal lobe dementia | 2 | Venous angioma | 1 | Primary lateral sclerosis | 16 | Head trauma | 2 | Parkinson syndrome | 1 | Spinocerebellar ataxia | 2 | ||
| Pontine AVM | 1 | Progressive bulbar palsy | 5 | Atypical PD | 1 | Cerebral palsy | 2 | ||||||
| Post-cerebral aneurysm surgery | 1 | Bulbar motor neuron disease or degeneration | 1 | Parkinsonian syndrome | 1 | Chronic cough | 1 | ||||||
| Brain aneurysm | 1 | Bulbar palsy | 1 | Progressive supranuclear palsy | 5 | Small-fiber neuropathy | 1 | ||||||
| Subarachnoid hemorrhage | 1 | Huntington’s disease | 1 | Leuko-encephalopathy | 1 | ||||||||
| Choreiform disorder | 1 | Post-herpes simplex virus | 1 | ||||||||||
| Movement disorder | 1 | Subdural hematoma | 1 | ||||||||||
| Corticobasilar degeneration | 1 | Viral meningio-encephalitis | 1 | ||||||||||
| Hydrocephalus | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Post-encephalitis | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Foster-Kennedy syndrome | 1 | ||||||||||||
| None known | 1 | ||||||||||||
AD: Alzheimer’s disease; ALS: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; AVM: arteriovenous malformation; CBVD: cerebrovascular disorders; MND: motor neuron disease; MS: multiple sclerosis; PBA: pseudobulbar affect; PD: Parkinson’s disease; TBI: traumatic brain injury.