Dysprosody nonassociated with neurological diseases—a case report

Dysprosody also known as pseudo-foreign dialect, is the rarest neurological speech disorder. It is characterized by alterations in intensity, in the timing of utterance segments, and in rhythm, cadency, and intonation of words. The terms refers to changes as to duration, fundamental frequency, and intensity of tonic and atonic syllables of the sentences spoken, which deprive an individualʹs particular speech of its characteristics. The cause of this disease is usually associated with neurological pathologies such as brain vascular accidents, cranioencephalic traumatisms, and brain tumors. The authors report a case of dysprosody attended to at the Nأ؛cleo de Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia de Cabeأ§a e Pescoأ§o de Sأ£o Paulo (NOSP). It is about a female patient with bilateral III degree Reinkeʹs edema and normal neurological examinations that started presenting characteristics of the German dialect following a larynx microsurgery.