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News and Articles on Echolalia
What Do We Know about Tourette's? Aug 13, 2009
For example, a Tourette s patient might continually pick up and smell objects or repeat what someone else just said (echolalia). Often a tic is preceded by a premonitory urge that is, a powerful desire to emit the tic, which some have likened to the feeling we experience immediately before sneezing. (Scientific American)
What happened to the boy with Tourette's? May 29, 2009
" John's condition encompasses a whole range of other symptoms, such as echolalia, which is repeating others' words, and sudden, violent body movements. He has a severe form of obsessive compulsive disorder which he says is mentally exhausting. He walks on pavement cracks, touches lamp-posts and gets up six times a night to check the front door is locked. He has an urge to touch men's crotches and women's breasts, but without any sexual motivation, he says. It's as if the self-control switch... (BBC News -- UK)
Ask the Youth Commission: Tourette syndrome: distinguishing fact from fiction Feb 8, 2009
In addition to these more common types of tics, there are three other unusual types of vocal tics that people with Tourette syndrome sometimes exhibit, Echolalia, Palilalia and Coprolalia. Echolalia is the involuntary repetition of part or all of what someone else has just said. (Needham Tab, MA)
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