Open AccessTransient Stuttering in Catatonic Bipolar Patients
Author(s) -
Anthony B. Joseph
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
behavioural neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.859
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1875-8584
pISSN - 0953-4180
DOI - 10.1155/1991/898671
Subject(s) - stuttering , catatonia , psychology , bipolar disorder , lateralization of brain function , aphasia , audiology , decompensation , language disorder , psychiatry , neuroscience , medicine , lithium (medication) , developmental psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , cognition , psychoanalysis
Two cases of transient stuttering occurring in association with catatonia and bipolar disorder are described. Affective decompensation has been associated with lateralized cerebral dysfunction, and it is hypothesized that in some bipolar catatonic patients a concomitant disorder of the lateralization of language function may lead to a variety of clinical presentations including aphasia, mutism, and stuttering.
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