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ReviewPsychosomatics

Non-Neurogenic Language Disorders: A Preliminary Classification.

Mario F Mendez

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Review in Psychosomatics. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mario F MendezDepartment of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Neurobehavior Unit, V.A. Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA. Electronic address: mmendez@ucla.edu.
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System · US

Funding

Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease Phenotypes: Neuropsychology and Neural NetworksRF1AG050967 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI MENDEZ, MARIO F. · 2016 to 2016
$1.9M
Multidisciplinary Study of Social Behavior and Emotion in Frontotemporal DementiaR01AG034499 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI MENDEZ, MARIO F. · 2009 to 2013
$1.9M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG034499NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG050967
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundFew publications deal with non-neurogenic language disorders (NNLDs), distinct from psychogenic speech disorders such as psychogenic dysphonia or stuttering. NNLDs are alterations in language owing to psychosomatic preoccupations, conversion disorder, psychiatric disorders, or other psychological reasons.

objectiveTo identify and classify the range of NNLDs and their characteristics.

methodsThis 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.

resultsThe 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.

conclusionsClinicians 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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HumansLanguage DisordersMental DisordersPsychophysiologic Disordersaphasiaforeign accent syndromelanguage

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PMID28911819
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