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Progressive dysfluency associated with right hemisphere disease.

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Horner, J; Massey, EW
Published in: Brain Lang
January 1983

A late onset progressive dysfluency following a right hemisphere stroke occurred in a 62-year-old male. Dysfluency was characterized by pronounced word and phrase reiterations, and sound and syllable reiterations to a lesser degree. Spontaneous speech was significantly more dysfluent than oral reading and repetition. Recitation and singing were minimally dysfluent. Reiterations were accompanied by reduced vocal loudness and increased rate of speech. Reiterations occurred in initial, medial, and final sentence position. Secondary symptoms such as facial grimacing were absent. In contrast to acquired cortical stuttering which is characterized by a preponderance of sound and syllable sentence initial repetitions, dysfluency was more closely characteristic of palilalia. The dysfluency occurred as a symptom of a diffuse nonspecific subcortical projection system defect related to massive infarction in the right middle cerebral artery distribution with associated atrophy.

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Brain Lang

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0093-934X

Publication Date

January 1983

Volume

18

Issue

1

Start / End Page

71 / 85

Location

Netherlands

Related Subject Headings

  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Stuttering
  • Speech Production Measurement
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Dyslexia, Acquired
  • Dominance, Cerebral
 

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Horner, J., & Massey, E. W. (1983). Progressive dysfluency associated with right hemisphere disease. Brain Lang, 18(1), 71–85. https://doi.org/10.1016/0093-934x(83)90007-x
Horner, J., and E. W. Massey. “Progressive dysfluency associated with right hemisphere disease.Brain Lang 18, no. 1 (January 1983): 71–85. https://doi.org/10.1016/0093-934x(83)90007-x.
Horner J, Massey EW. Progressive dysfluency associated with right hemisphere disease. Brain Lang. 1983 Jan;18(1):71–85.
Horner, J., and E. W. Massey. “Progressive dysfluency associated with right hemisphere disease.Brain Lang, vol. 18, no. 1, Jan. 1983, pp. 71–85. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/0093-934x(83)90007-x.
Horner J, Massey EW. Progressive dysfluency associated with right hemisphere disease. Brain Lang. 1983 Jan;18(1):71–85.
Journal cover image

Published In

Brain Lang

DOI

ISSN

0093-934X

Publication Date

January 1983

Volume

18

Issue

1

Start / End Page

71 / 85

Location

Netherlands

Related Subject Headings

  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Stuttering
  • Speech Production Measurement
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Dyslexia, Acquired
  • Dominance, Cerebral