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Palilalia
Author(s) -
BOLLER FRANCOIS,
ALBERT MARTIN,
DENES FRANCO
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.3109/13682827509011280
Subject(s) - psychology , basal ganglia , chorea , repetition (rhetorical device) , phrase , speech disorder , language disorder , audiology , linguistics , neuroscience , medicine , psychiatry , central nervous system , pathology , disease , philosophy , cognition
Summary Palilalia, a disorder of speech characterised by compulsive repetition of a phrase or word, is not a rare phenomenon but is seldom mentioned in modern literature. This paper describes two patients, mother and son, affected by palilalia. Both patients had bilateral lesions affecting the basal ganglia and the grey matter of the hemispheres. In these cases as in others described in the literature, palilalia is felt to be due to bilateral lesions and to represent the speech counterpart of other motor phenomena such as festination or chorea.