Notes and Discussion Features Resembling Tourette’s Syndrome in Developmental Stutterers  

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Abwender, David A. ; Trinidad, Kimberly S. ; Jones, Kathy R. ; Como, Peter G. ; Hymes, Enid ; Kurlan, Roger

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 62 no. 3 (1998), page 455-464.
Fulltext: 62_03_Abwender.pdf (61.76KB)

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Developmental stuttering (DS) may be related to the extrapyramidal motor system and shares many clinical similarities with Tourette’s syndrome (TS), which is widely believed to be associated with extrapyramidal dysfunction. Twenty-two stutterers were examined for neuropsychiatric features commonly seen in TS, including tics, obsessive-compulsive behaviors (OCB), and attention deficit disorders. Eleven stutterers displayed motor tics, and symptoms of OCB were observed at rates similar to those seen in persons with TS. Few stutterers demonstrated significant attentional deficits. Findings are consistent with models suggesting extrapyramidal involvement in DS and raise the possibility that DS and TS are pathogenetically related.

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