LINGUISTIC REGRESSION TO USE OF THE NATIV E LANGUAGE ONLY IN BILINGUAL PERSONS DURING ACUTE PSYCHOTIC EPISODES

Authors
HEINEMANN F ASSION HJ
Citation
F. Heinemann et Hj. Assion, LINGUISTIC REGRESSION TO USE OF THE NATIV E LANGUAGE ONLY IN BILINGUAL PERSONS DURING ACUTE PSYCHOTIC EPISODES, Nervenarzt, 67(7), 1996, pp. 599-601
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,"Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Nervenarzt → ACNP
ISSN journal
00282804
Volume
67
Issue
7
Year of publication
1996
Pages
599 - 601
Database
ISI
SICI code
0028-2804(1996)67:7<599:LRTUOT>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Three bilingual patients with schizophrenia are presented, who spoke a lmost exclusively in their native language during acute episodes of ps ychosis. Normal use of the foreign language, German, was again possibl e after remission of the acute symptoms. This phenomenon of regression is similar to speech disorders in patients with aphasia and is discus sed with reference to recent biological findings.