REGRESSIVE LANGUAGE IN SEVERE HEAD INJURY

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Abstract
In a follow-up study of 50 patients with severe head injuries, 3 patients had echolalia. One patient with initially global aphasia had echolalia for some weeks when he started talking. Another patient with severe diffuse brain damage, dementia and emotional regression had echolalia. The dysfunction was considered a detour performance. In the 3rd patient echolalia and palilalia were details in a total pattern of regression lasting for months. The patient, who had extensive frontal atrophy secondary to a very severe head trauma, presented an extreme state of regression returning to a fetal-body pattern and behaving like a baby.

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