Palilalie

Palilalie (from Greek πάλιν ( pálin ), “again” and λαλέω ( laleô ), “speak, talk”) is a medical term that describes the pathological compulsion to repeat one's own sentences and words. The speed of speaking increases while the volume decreases.

Like echolalia (compulsive repetition of the other person's words), palilalia is one of the repetitive phenomena (linguistic tics ). It often occurs in the utterances of brain-damaged patients . Tourette's patients and those with advanced Parkinson's disease and Pick's disease in particular suffer from these repetitive disorders, but the occurrence has also been described in schizophrenia and autism .

See also

• Echolalia
• Coprolalia
• Verbigeration

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