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Palilalia is defined as the repetition of the speaker's words or phrases, often for a varying number of repeats. Repeated units are generally whole sections of words and are larger than a syllable, with words being repeated the most often, followed by phrases, and then syllables or sounds.
Echolalia is the unsolicited repetition of vocalizations made by another person; when repeated by the same person, it is called palilalia. In its profound form it is automatic and effortless. In its profound form it is automatic and effortless.
Klazomania is similar to other complex tics including echolalia, palilalia and coprolalia. [1] It is defined as compulsive shouting, which can be in the form of swearing, grunting or barking. [3] The subject may appear flushed, and klazomania can occur with increasing frequency if the person is agitated. [3]
[2] [35] Echolalia (repeating the words of others) and palilalia (repeating one's own words) occur in a minority of cases. [36] Complex motor tics include copropraxia (obscene or forbidden gestures, or inappropriate touching), echopraxia (repetition or imitation of another person's actions) and palipraxia (repeating one's own movements). [32]
Echopraxia is a typical symptom of Tourette syndrome but causes are not well elucidated. [1]Frontal lobe animation. One theoretical cause subject to ongoing debate surrounds the role of the mirror neuron system (MNS), a group of neurons in the inferior frontal gyrus (F5 region) of the brain that may influence imitative behaviors, [1] but no widely accepted neural or computational models have ...
A person with coprolalia may repeat the word mentally rather than saying it out loud; these subvocalizations can be very distressing. [ 8 ] Coprolalia is an occasional characteristic of Tourette syndrome , although it is not required for a diagnosis of Tourette's.
This glossary covers terms found in the psychiatric literature; the word origins are primarily Greek, but there are also Latin, French, German, and English terms. Many of these terms refer to expressions dating from the early days of psychiatry in Europe; some are deprecated, and thus are of historic interest.
A thought disorder (TD) is a disturbance in cognition which affects language, thought and communication. [1] [2] Psychiatric and psychological glossaries in 2015 and 2017 identified thought disorders as encompassing poverty of ideas, paralogia (a reasoning disorder characterized by expression of illogical or delusional thoughts), word salad, and delusions—all disturbances of thought content ...