Über das Poltern, das sogenannte «Stottern mit Polterkomponente» und deren Beziehung zu den Aphasien

Cluttering

“…The first results showed some deviation in almost 100 per cent of the cases; the stutterers exhibited less de viations than the clutterers, hut more than the general population. These statem ents were followed by a spirited discussion by Streijler and Gumpertz [95], Bente and Sclwenlmrl [13], Luchsinger and Landolt [72], Mordvek and Langovâ [75], and Langovâ and Morâvek [00]). Streijler and Gumpertz, in particular, denied any validity it the " deviations" indicated by other authors, and came to the conclusion th at the EEC of the clutterer was within the broad range of normalcy.…”

Observations on Tachylalia

“…The fact th at most psychiatric patients •were not acutely ill or disturbed but in a fair state of remission makes it more probable th at their speech rapidity was not simply a transient phenomenon but of long duration and probably closely connected with their basic personality make-up. Secondary or sym ptom atic cluttering in the brain damaged was already accepted as a special category by Weiss [23] and a relationship of speech rapidity to the explosive tem peram ent of epileptics was hinted at by Luchsinger [13] on the basis of his EEG studies on clutterers. Similar EEG changes, however, were also seen in children with behaviour disorders and in adults with personality disorders ('psychopaths') (see Luchsinger [13]).…”

“…Secondary or sym ptom atic cluttering in the brain damaged was already accepted as a special category by Weiss [23] and a relationship of speech rapidity to the explosive tem peram ent of epileptics was hinted at by Luchsinger [13] on the basis of his EEG studies on clutterers. Similar EEG changes, however, were also seen in children with behaviour disorders and in adults with personality disorders ('psychopaths') (see Luchsinger [13]). A relationship between cluttciing and a general state o f'im m aturity' of the central nervous system was also postulated [23].…”

Articulatory Variability in Cluttering

“…In the second half of the last century, brain activities of PWC were investigated by electroencephalography. The results pointed out abnormal brain activities in 90% of the analysed PWC [18,19] . Interestingly, for stuttering, no [18,19] or less frequent pathological brain activities [20,21] were found (in 13.5 and 15.5% of the analysed persons with stuttering).…”

“…The results pointed out abnormal brain activities in 90% of the analysed PWC [18,19] . Interestingly, for stuttering, no [18,19] or less frequent pathological brain activities [20,21] were found (in 13.5 and 15.5% of the analysed persons with stuttering). Furthermore, some acoustic analyses were carried out, showing that dysfluencies occur more frequently in cluttering in comparison to stuttering [22,23] , and the longer a word, the more frequently dysfluencies were observed [22] .…”