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I What Could Cause A Rapid And Tangential Speech?

I just interviewed a possible admission to our SA/MH residential home, and the Drs. are stumped. She doesn t drink to dependence level, her speech is very rapid, tangential, but shows no signs od depression and sleeps normally. She is NOT psychotic, just processes information super quickly and speaks so fast you can barely understand what she s saying. Any suggestions?
Fri, 22 Dec 2017
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dear dominant lobe Broca's area lesion can causes
have trouble speaking fluently but their comprehension can be relatively preserved. Patients have difficulty producing grammatical sentences and their speech is limited mainly to short utterances of less than four words.

Producing the right sounds or finding the right words is often a laborious process. Some persons have more difficulty using verbs than using nouns. tangential speech defects may seen in right hemisphere lesions.some times dementia,drugs like atropine may cause similar effects.please consult your neurophysician he will examine and treat you accordingly.

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I What Could Cause A Rapid And Tangential Speech?

hello thank you for trusting HCM dear dominant lobe Broca s area lesion can causes have trouble speaking fluently but their comprehension can be relatively preserved. Patients have difficulty producing grammatical sentences and their speech is limited mainly to short utterances of less than four words. Producing the right sounds or finding the right words is often a laborious process. Some persons have more difficulty using verbs than using nouns. tangential speech defects may seen in right hemisphere lesions.some times dementia,drugs like atropine may cause similar effects.please consult your neurophysician he will examine and treat you accordingly. take care