which disorder is characterized by involuntary, rapid repetitions of words or phrases?
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Palilalia Palilalia must be differentiated from other complex tic disorders (such as echolalia), stuttering, and logoclonia. In contrast to stuttering or logoclonia, palilalic repetitions tend to consist of complete sections of words or phrases, are often repeated many times, and the speaker has no difficulty initiating speech.
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Definition and Examples of Repetition in Writing As demonstrated below, needless or unintentional repetition (a tautology or pleonasm) is a kind of clutter that may distract or bore a reader. (The baseless fear of repetition is humorously called monologophobia .). Used deliberately, repetition can be an effective rhetorical strategy for achieving emphasis.
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Aphasia Aphasia usually occurs suddenly, often following a stroke or head injury, but it may also develop slowly, as the result of a brain tumor or a progressive neurological disease. The disorder impairs the expression and understanding of language as well as reading and writing.
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obsessive-compulsive disorder (əb-sěs'ĭv-kəm-pŭl'sĭv) A psychiatric disorder characterized by the persistent intrusion of repetitive, unwanted thoughts which may be accompanied by compulsive actions, such as handwashing. The individual cannot voluntarily prevent these thoughts or actions, which interfere with normal functioning.
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What is Echolalia: Causes, Symptoms, Treatment, Prognosis, Prevention, Associated Disorders Echolalia is a symptom or a phenomenon of repeating the words, phrases and sentences of what others have said. In most cases, Echolalia is associated with autism and other disorders. However, in some cases, it is just a part of normal language development that a child might experience by the time he/she reaches 18 months of age and reaches the peak when the child is 30 months old.
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- I. Definition and Symptomatology. A. Definition of stuttering. 1. International Classification of Diseases (WHO, 1977: Disorder in the rhythm of speech, in which the individual knows precisely what he wishes to say, but is unable to say it because of an involuntary repetition, prolongation, or cessation of sound.
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- Children may also exhibit a higher number of speech interjections as they develop their language formulation abilities. Stuttering typically consists of speech disfluencies along with tension, struggle, secondary behaviors, or negative reactions to disfluencies (e.g., frustration).isruptions in the forward flow of speech may consist of: 1  Repetitions: repeating of a syllable, sound, word, or phrase (e.g., “li-li-li-like this”). 2  Prolongations: holding onto a sound for an extended period of time (e.g, “llllike this”).
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Dystonia Dystonia is a form of movement disorder where faulty signals from the brain cause abnormal, involuntary and often painful muscle contractions. These dystonic contractions can be intermittent or continuous, and can produce noticeable repetitive movements, such as twisting or tremors, as well as abnormal postures.
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Copropraxia Copropraxia is a tic consisting of involuntarily performing obscene or forbidden gestures, or inappropriate touching. Copropraxia comes from the Greek κόπρος meaning feces and πράξις meaning action. Copropraxia is a rare characteristic of Tourette syndrome. Related terms are coprolalia, referring to involuntary usage of profane words, and coprographia, making vulgar writings or drawings.
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- Phonological disorder is a type of speech disorder known as an articulation disorder. Children with phonological disorder do not use some or all of the speech sounds expected for their age group. News & Features. Word for Word/Of Little Brain; Ritalin to the Rescue: A Children's Story for Our Time.
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- I'm sure I've gotten my share of odd looks on commercial flights. I'm a somniloquist [1] - specifically, I have rapid eye movement behaviour disorder (RBD). This means that I don't just mumble in my sleep; I scream and yell coherent sentences, often laced with vulgarity.
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Dysarthria Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder resulting from neurological injury of the motor component of the motor-speech system and is characterized by poor articulation of phonemes (cf. aphasia: a disorder of the content of language).
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History Rheumatic chorea is characterized by muscle weakness and the presence of chorea. The patients have the milkmaid grip sign, clumsy gait, and explosive bursts of dysarthric speech. Often, harlequin tongue, which pops in and out when the patient tries to hold it out, can be prominently demonstrated.
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Introduction Involuntary Movements 1 Most common involuntary movement disorder, typified by a rapid tremorpostural most often of the upper extremities. 2  Progressive, may appear at anytime of life but most commonly >70 years. 3  Mainly a postural tremor but if worsened, will occur at rest.  Commonly bilateral and symmetric.
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- Chorea. Chorea is an abnormal involuntary movement derived from the Greek word “dance”. It is characterized by brief, abrupt, irregular, unpredictable, non-stereotyped movements. In milder cases, they may appear purposeful; the patient often appears fidgety and clumsy.horea may worsen with anxiety and voluntary movements, and subsides during sleep. They may occur with athetosis, a more distal, slower, writhing, abnormal movement, and is known as choreoathetosis.
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Tourette syndrome A neurological disorder characterized by multiple facial and body tics and often accompanied by grunts and compulsive utterances, such as interjections and obscenities. It is usually diagnosed in childhood or adolescence. Also called Gilles de la Tourette syndrome.
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Communication Disorders The term dysarthria encompasses a group of motor speech disorders caused by a disturbance in the neuromuscular control of speech. These disorders result from central or peripheral nervous system damage and are manifested as weakness, slowness, or incoordination of speech.
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- A phonatory or articulatory disorder characterized by difficult enunciation of words with frequent halting and repetition of the initial consonant or syllable. v. stut·tered, stut·ter·ing, stut·ters. To utter with spasmodic repetition or prolongation of sounds.
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Tourette Syndrome General Discussion. Tourette Syndrome is a hereditary neurological movement disorder that is characterized by repetitive motor and vocal tics. Symptoms may include involuntary movements of the extremities, shoulders, and face accompanied by uncontrollable sounds and, in some cases, inappropriate words.
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Paraphasia Wernicke’s aphasia is characterized by fluent language with made up or unnecessary words with little or no meaning to speech. Those who suffer from this type of aphasia have difficulty understanding others speech and are unaware of their own mistakes.
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- The presence of at least one of the following in association with the recurrent episodes of involuntary. eating: 1. Consumption of peculiar forms or combinations of food or inedible or toxic substances. 2. Sleep related injurious or potentially injurious behaviors performed while in pursuit of food or.
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Stuttering What is stuttering? Stuttering is a speech disorder characterized by repetition of sounds, syllables, or words; prolongation of sounds; and interruptions in speech known as blocks. An individual who stutters exactly knows what he or she would like to say but has trouble producing a normal flow of speech.
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speech a disorder of the faculty of reasoning, characterized by discon-nected and meaningless speech. paraphasia. aphasia characterized by the inability to find the correct words to express meaning. paraphrasia. garbled or incoherent speech, the result of aphasia.
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Tourette syndrome A tic disorder appearing in childhood, characterized by multiple motor tics and vocal tics present for longer than 1 year. Obsessive-compulsive behavior, attention-deficit disorder, and other psychiatric disorders may be associated; coprolalia and echolalia rarely occur; autosomal dominant inheritance.
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dysarthria Difficulty in articulating words, caused by impairment of the muscles used in speech. dysarthria. difficult, poorly articulated speech, resulting from interference in the control and execution over the muscles of speech usually caused by damage to a central or peripheral motor nerve.
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Stuttering The term stuttering is most commonly associated with involuntary sound repetition, but it also encompasses the abnormal hesitation or pausing before speech, referred to by people who stutter as blocks, and the prolongation of certain sounds, usually vowels or semivowels.