Paragrammatic speech without a comprehension deficit? A case report.
In this article we present a case report of a patient, who had a peculiar pattern of language use following a stroke. The two most prominent features were language switches during spontaneous speech in the first months postonset, when the patient mixed English, German, and French words and utterances into his mother tongue (Dutch); clearly disturbed speech output, showing signs of word-finding problems and paragrammatism but hardly any paraphasias, while at the same time no evidence of a language disturbance could be obtained with standard clinical aphasia tests.
D000368:Aged; D001037:Aphasia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012660:Semantics; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed