title: Isolated palilalia: a case report.
abstract: We report the case of a 74-year-old patient, whose spontaneous speech was characterized by the compulsive repetition of parts of words, words and sentences with increasing rate and decreasing loudness. On a standardized language examination, his performance was within normal limits, besides the presence of palilalia; neurological examination showed a slight limitation of vertical gaze and a reduction of blinking. A small right capsulo-thalamic ischemic lesion was present on magnetic resonance imaging. This case provides further evidence that palilalia can be observed as an isolated impairment of speech production following subcortical lesions.
authors.affiliation: Clinica Neurologica, Università di Modena, ModenaClinica Neurologica, Università di Brescia, Il Neurologia Spedali Civili, P.le Ospedale 1, 25125 Brescia Italy.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Gorno
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Miozzo
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mattioli
authors.forename: S F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Cappa