Acquired non-specific stuttering in Parkinson’s disease

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative predominantly characterized by tremor, bradykinesia, and rigor. In addition to motor non-motor manifestations of disease, there are number symptoms, including speech disorders other cognitive impairments. The most common symptoms bradylalia, dysarthria, hypophonia impaired prosody. Cognitive changes that occur in the prodromal phase PD include impairment executive functions working memory, followed attention verbal fluency, before characteristics become visible. aim study present case 74-year-old patient with who has language difficulties atypical disfluency. Diagnostic processing was performed using clinical battery tests for – assessment neuropsychological assessment. results indicate significantly reduced intelligence due non-specific disfluency inaccurate articulation, difficulty organizing spontaneous expression understanding grammatical structures, phonemic fluency receptive vocabulary. Neuropsychological indicated diffuse deterioration examined functioning be larger than expected when taking ito consideration age probably good premorbid abilities this person.