Compulsive foreign language syndrome: A clinical observation not a mystery

Cortex

Volumn 81, Issue , 2016, Pages 276-277

  Beschin, Nicoletta ^a   de Bruin, Angela ^b   Della Sala, Sergio ^b  

^a Somma Lombardo Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compulsive behaviour; Foreign language syndrome; Secondary mania; Xenoglossy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BOSTON NAMING TEST; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPULSION; COMPULSIVE FOREIGN LANGUAGE SYNDROME; DEPRESSION; DYSARTHRIA; EPISODIC MEMORY; EUPHORIA; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FRENCH (LANGUAGE); GRAMMAR; GRANDIOSE DELUSION; HUMAN; ITALIAN (CITIZEN); LINGUISTICS; MALE; MANIA; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; REINFORCEMENT; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SLEEP DISORDER; LANGUAGE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; SYNDROME;

COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; SYNDROME;

EID: 84969492189     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2016.04.020     Document Type: Note

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