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Press of speech
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Logorrhea means excessive verbal production; it is manifested as an unusual verbosity that may suggest the presence of neurological or psychiatric pathologies. Logorrhea is frequently reported as a symptom of Wernicke’s aphasia, where damage to the posterior language cortex yields reduced verbal self-monitoring and a press for speech despite anomia and the consequent absence of meaningful linguistic content in spoken utterances (Christman and Buckingham 1989). Logorrhea in aphasia may be produced with normal prosody and a normal or slightly fast speech rate, and it may co-occur with neologistic jargon (Hallowell and Chapey 2008). Logorrhea has also been reported as a symptom of mania in bipolar disorder and as a symptom of chronic speech catatonia syndrome (Lee 2004).
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Christman, S. S., & Buckingham, H. W. (1989). Jargon aphasia. In C. Code (Ed.), The characteristics of aphasia (pp. 111–130). London: Taylor & Francis.
Hallowell, B., & Chapey, R. (2008). Introduction to language intervention strategies in adult aphasia. In R. Chapey (Ed.), Language intervention strategies in aphasia and related neurogenic communication disorders (5th ed., pp. 3–19). Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Lee, J. W. Y. (2004). Chronic ‘speech catatonia’ with constant logorrhea, verbigeration and echolalia successfully treated with lorazepam: A case report. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 58(6), 666–668.
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Christman Buckingham, S.S. (2018). Logorrhea. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_896
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