Case report: Gait-induced palilalia in a patient with hemiplegia due to cerebral infarction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Palilalia is a type of speech characterized by compulsive repetition of words, phrases, or syllables. Several reports have noted that palilalia can occur in response to external verbal stimuli. Here, we report, for the first time, a patient with palilalia induced by gait, which we call "movement-related palilalia."

Case presentation

Eleven months after the onset of cerebral infarction sparing the right precentral gyrus and its adjacent subcortical regions, a 63-year-old, left-handed Japanese man was referred for psychiatric consultation because of a complaint of irritability caused by the stress of compulsive repetition of a single meaningless word, "wai." The repetition of a word, palilalia, in this case, was characterized by its predominant occurrence during wal

SUBMITTER: Kaneko Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11252822 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature