Abstract | BACKGROUND: OBJECTIVE: To identify and classify the range of NNLDs and their characteristics. METHODS: This review summarizes the literature on disturbances in language, broadly defined as the use of symbols for communication, which may have a psychogenic or psychiatric etiology. RESULTS: The literature suggests a classification for NNLDs that includes psychogenic aphasia with dysgrammatism; psychogenic "lalias" including oxylalia and agitolalia, palilalia and echolalia, xenolalia, glossolalia, and coprolalia; psychologically-mediated word usage; psychotic language; and psychogenic forms of the foreign accent syndrome. CONCLUSIONS: Clinicians and researchers have insufficiently emphasized the presence of NNLDs, their characteristics, and their identification. Yet, these disorders may be the first or predominant manifestation of a psychologically-mediated illness. There are 2 steps to recognition. The first is to know how to distinguish NNLDs from the manifestations of neurogenic language impairments after a neurological evaluation. The second step is awareness of specific associated and examination features that suggest the presence of a NNLD.
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Authors | Mario F Mendez |
Journal | Psychosomatics
(Psychosomatics)
2018 Jan - Feb
Vol. 59
Issue 1
Pg. 28-35
ISSN: 1545-7206 [Electronic] England |
PMID | 28911819
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Review)
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Copyright | Copyright © 2018 The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
Topics |
- Humans
- Language Disorders
(classification, complications, psychology)
- Mental Disorders
(complications, psychology)
- Psychophysiologic Disorders
(complications, psychology)
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