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Minnesota, University of. School of Dentistry, Speech Prosthesis Clinic. Velopharyngeal closure. Available at http //www.dentistry.umn.edu/patients/ Speech Prosthesis Clinic553.html (cited May 6, 2003). 

Complex partial seizures manifest themselves as bizarre behaviours which are also known as psychomotor or temporal lobe epilepsy, since a lesion (focus) is often found in that brain area. Repetitive and apparently purposeful movements vary from simple hand clenching or rubbing to more bizarre hand movements and walking. These can last a few minutes, often disrupt other ongoing activity or speech and the patient has no subsequent memory of them. Complex seizures may develop from simple ones. 

Petit mal (PM) or absence seizures (AS). These are less dramatic and generally occur in children. They entail a brief and abrupt loss of awareness (consciousness) in which the patient suddenly ceases ongoing activity or speech and stares vacantly for a few seconds before recovering equally quickly. Motor disturbances are rare apart from blinking of the eyes and the patient has no recollection of the event. 

Sensorium. Patients with PCP intoxication can have a clear sensorium, or they can be disoriented, confused, stuporous, lethargic, or comatose. Signs of cerebral stimulation, such as pressured speech, verbigerations, and echolalia, may also occur. Frank psychotic symptoms, including hallucinations, delusions, and paranoid ideation, are not unusual. 

Lifestyle modifications should be started early and continued throughout treatment because they may improve ADL, gait, balance, and mental health. The most common interventions include maintaining good nutrition, physical condition, and social interactions. Patients should avoid medications that block central dopamine, as they may worsen PD.1,18 A multidisciplinary approach using the expertise of nutritionists, speech therapists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and social workers may optimize care but may not be covered by insurance. Patients should maintain regular visits with their optometrist or ophthalmologist and their dentist. The dentist should be informed that the patient has PD, as PD medications that decrease saliva flow may increase the risk of dental caries. 

Other nondrug approaches include the use of external heat or cold to reduce postauricular pain and surgery. Tympanostomy tubes are most useful for patients with recurrent disease or chronic OME with impaired hearing or speech. Adenoidectomy may be necessary for children with chronic nasal obstruction, but tonsillectomy is rarely indicated. 

A patient with a lesion in Wernicke s area is unable to understand any spoken or visual information. Furthermore, the patient s speech, while fluent, is unintelligible because of frequent errors in the choice of words. This condition is known as receptive aphasia. On the other hand, a patient with a lesion in Broca s area is able to understand spoken and written language but is unable to express his response in a normal manner. Speech in this patient is nonfluent and requires great effort because he cannot establish the proper motor command to articulate the desired words. This condition is known as expressive aphasia. 

Metachromatic leukodystrophy is due to a defect in arylsulfatase A (ASA). There are three major forms late infantile, juvenile and adult. The overall incidence is 1 40,000. In the late infantile and early juvenile forms, which comprise about 80% of patients, the initial symptoms involve the motor system, with falls, loss of ability to walk, flaccid paralysis, difficulty in swallowing, loss of speech, vision, seizures, decerebrate state and death 1-7 years after onset of symptoms. In the adolescent and... 

One of the most prominent positive symptoms in schizophrenia is the auditory hallucinations that are perceived as distinct voices emanating from outside the individual. Regional cerebral-blood-flow studies in patients experiencing auditory hallucinations reveal activation of the associational auditory cortex during the episodes of hallucinations, but not in their absence. One theory holds that auditory hallucinations occur as a consequence of the inability of individuals with schizophrenia to monitor effectively their inner speech. fMRI studies suggest that... 

In bipolar depression, patients often have mood lability, hypersomnia, low energy, psychomotor retardation, cognitive impairments, anhedo-nia, decreased sexual activity, slowed speech, carbohydrate craving, and weight gain. 

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