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Speech arrest in partial seizures

Evidence of an associated language disorder

Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, and Veterans Administration Medical Center, Gainesville, FL.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Heilman, Department of Neurology, Box 5-236, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610.

Article abstract—Recurrent episodes of speech arrest were observed in a man as the primary manifestation of a partial seizure disorder. To determine whether speech arrest was associated with a language disorder, the Syntactic Comprehension test was administered during and after speech arrest. This test does not depend upon speech production, but evaluates ability to comprehend sentences in which meaning depends on syntactic relationships. Using this test, we were able to show that speech arrest was associated with a language disturbance.

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