Perceptual accent rating and attribution in psychogenic FAS: some further evidence challenging Whitaker's operational definition

A 40-year-old, non-aphasic, right-handed, and polyglot (L1: French, L2: Dutch, L3: English) woman with a 12 year history of addiction to opiates and psychoactive substances, and clear psychiatric problems, presented with a foreign accent of sudden onset in L1. Speech evolved towards a mostly fluent output, despite a stutter-like behavior and a marked grammatical output disorder. The psychogenic etiology of the accent foreignness was construed based upon the patient’s complex medical history, and psychodiagnostic, neuropsychological, and neurolinguistic assessments. The presence of a foreign accent was affirmed by a perceptual accent rating and attribution experiment. It is argued that this patient provides additional evidence demonstrating the outdatedness of Whitaker’s (1982) definition of Foreign Accent Syndrome, as only one of the four operational criteria was unequivocally applicable to our patient: her accent foreignness was not only recognized by her relatives and the medical staff, but also by a group of native French-speaking laymen. However, our patient defied the three remaining criteria, as central nervous system damage could not conclusively be demonstrated, psychodiagnostic assessment raised the hypothesis of a conversion disorder, and the patient was a polyglot whose newly gained accent was associated with a range of foreign languages, which exceeded the ones she spoke

Spontaneous spinal subdural hematoma: case report and review of the literature.

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Stimulation magnétique corticale: données normatives et modifications pharmacologiques et pathologiques

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Clinical neurophysiology of dystonia

It took decades to accept that dystonia, a bizarre condition which often produces abnormal movements exclusively during specific activities like writing, was due to brain disease. Clinical neurophysiology certainly added to this evolution of thinking. Recent neurophysiological observations demonstrate that dystonia is not only due to an isolated brain motor dysfunction, but also to sensory and sensorimotor integration disturbances. We hope that new treatment strategies will arise thanks to our better understanding of dystonia pathophysiology.SCOPUS: re.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

La maladie d'Alzheimer en 1995.

Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia in our society. Recent progress in the understanding of the mechanisms leading to the central nervous system abnormalities produced by this disease will lead soon to new strategies of treatment and new diagnostic approaches.English AbstractJournal ArticleReviewSCOPUS: sh.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

Syndrome de Lambert-Eaton ou bloc neuro-musculaire mixte: difficultés diagnostiques.

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Le syndrome de Lambert-Eaton.

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Supramaximally stimulated complex A-waves are helpful to distinguish lower motor neurone disease from demyelinating neuropathies

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