Table 1.
Alternative names for pseudobulbar affect
| Pseudobulbar laughing or crying |
| Pathologic weeping or crying or laughing |
| Pathologic emotionalism or emotionality |
| Pathological affect |
| Organic emotionalism |
| Involuntary emotional expression disorder |
| Inappropriate hilarity |
| Forced laughter or crying |
| Excessive emotionality |
| Emotionalism |
| Emotional lability |
| Emotional instability |
| Emotional incontinence |
| Emotional dysregulation |
| Emotional dyscontrol |
| Compulsive laughing or crying |
| Affective lability |
| Affective instability |
| Affective incontinence |