tachyphemia; verbal cluttering

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Clinical manifestations

  • rapid speech, difficult to understand, erratic rhythm, poor syntax or grammar, & words or groups of words unrelated to the sentence
  • tendency to speak more & more rapidly until all words run together

More general terms

References

  1. Geriatric Review Syllabus, 7th edition Parada JT et al (eds) American Geriatrics Society, 2010
  2. Wikipedia: cluttering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluttering