Extrapyramidal dysarthria

Dysarthria in medicine refers to dysfunction and difficulty in speech formation. Extrapyramidal disorders are a group of neuropsychiatric diseases that include progressive pathologies of the extrapyramidal nervous system, manifested by a variety of symptoms - from impaired coordination of movements to changes in the psyche. Dysarthria syndrome manifests itself in organic lesions of the extrapyramidal nervous system of various etiologies. Among the causes, the most significant are physical factors: postencephalitic symptom complexes, intoxication, acute and chronic infections, complicated by polyneuropathy or toxic-dystrophic damage to the cerebral cortex with subcortical symptoms. Dysautonomous disorders in the facial region, nonspecific disorders of muscle tone control and psychosis are most often caused by intoxication with heavy metals or organic poisons (alizine, thallium, opium, etc.). Overdose of neuroleptics and antidepressants, the development of resistance to them and damage to extrapyramidal systems by the side effects of hormonal-antiandrogenic drugs can cause dysautogamy syndromes with a predominance of hypokinesia and dysmetria. Atrophic and vascular encephalopathies in senile and old age