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Coexisting psychogenic and neurogenic dysphonia: A source of diagnostic confusion
Author(s) -
Sapir Shimon,
Aronson Arnold E.
Publication year - 1987
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 - 10.3109/13682828709088689
Subject(s) - psychogenic disease , psychology , confusion , disease , audiology , communication disorder , language disorder , psychiatry , medicine , cognition , pathology , psychoanalysis
Four patients are described who had neurologic disease and accompanying dysphonia that proved to he partially or entirely psychogenic. The findings suggest that the association of a speech disorder with organic disease does not necessarily imply a causal relationship, even when the speech signs seem to arise from the site or organ system affected by disease. The potential for psychogenic factors to confuse the differential neurologic diagnosis of speech disorders is emphasised.