Palilalia is the repetition or echoing of one's own spoken words.[1] It can be a complex tic, like echolalia and coprolalia and may sound like stuttering;[2] all can be symptoms of Tourette syndrome,[3] obsessive–compulsive disorder,[4] or autism.[5] Palilalia can also occur in neurological sydromes, such as stroke or epilepsy.[6][7]
Palilalia comes from the Greek πάλιν (pálin) meaning "again"[8] and λαλιά (laliá) meaning "speech"[9] (from the verb λαλείν (laleín) meaning "to talk").
Palilalia must be differentiated from logoclonia, in which the patient often repeats the last syllable of a word.[10] Logoclonia is a symptom of dementia,[11] Alzheimer's disease,[12] and other organic brain disease.[13]
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