Palilalia

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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]

References

  1. ^ Tourette Syndrome: A Glossary of Terms. Tourette Syndrome Association. Retrieved on 2007-06-10.
  2. ^ Primer on Tourette syndrome. Tourette syndrome Plus. Retrieved on 2007-06-10.
  3. ^ Tics and Tourette's syndrome. Postgraduate Medicine Online. Retrieved on 2007-06-10.
  4. ^ Mental health conditions and diagnoses: obsessive–compulsive disorder. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Retrieved on 2011-07-11.
  5. ^ Reducing Palilalia by Presenting Tact Corrections to Young Children with Autism. Journals of the Association for Behavioral Analysis. Retrieved on 2007-06-10.
  6. ^ Palilalia: a descriptive study of pathological reiterative utterances. J Speech Hearing Dis, 1981. PMID 7206676
  7. ^ Palilalia, echolalia, and echopraxia-palipraxia as ictal manifestations in a patient with left frontal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsia, 2009. PMID 19175395
  8. ^ (Greek) Triantafyllidis Online Dictionary, πάλι, Retrieved on 2007-06-11
  9. ^ (Greek) Triantafyllidis Online Dictionary, λαλιά, Retrieved on 2007-06-11
  10. ^ Abe, K; Yokoyama, R; Yorifuji, S (1993). "Repetitive speech disorder resulting from infarcts in the paramedian thalami and midbrain". Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 56 (9): 1024–6. doi:10.1136/jnnp.56.9.1024. PMC 489743. PMID 8410027. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=489743.  edit
  11. ^ Gustafson, L; Nilsson, L (1982). "Differential diagnosis of presenile dementia on clinical grounds". Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica 65 (3): 194–209. PMID 7072512.  edit
  12. ^ Gustafson, L; Brun, A; Englund, E; Hagnell, O; Nilsson, K; Stensmyr, M; Ohlin, AK; Abrahamson, M (1998). "A 50-year perspective of a family with chromosome-14-linked Alzheimer's disease". Human genetics 102 (3): 253–7. doi:10.1007/s004390050688. PMID 9544835.  edit
  13. ^ Kubo, S; Hattori, T; Takanashi, M; Mori, H; Mizutani, Y; Suda, K; Hattori, N; Mizuno, Y (2000). "A 57-year-old woman with progressive disturbance of gait and mental deterioration". No to shinkei = Brain and nerve 52 (11): 1035–44. PMID 11217688.  edit

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