Psychogenic Dysphonia on Early-Onset Parkinson’s Disease: A Case Report
Burcu UĞUREL,1 Özlem ERANIL,1 Berrin AKTEKİN,1 Müzeyyen DOĞAN2
1Yeditepe Üniversitesi Hastanesi Nöroloji Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul, Türkiye
2Yeditepe Üniversitesi Hastanesi Kulak Burun Boğaz Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul, Türkiye
Keywords: Conversion disorder; dysphonia; Parkinson’s disease.
Abstract
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by several clinical findings including motor, psychiatric and cognitive dysfunctions. Many people with Parkinson’s disease suffer from speech disorders. Somatoform disorders have been recently described in the course of the disease. In this article, we present a 37-years-old female case with psychogenic speech disorder in Parkinson’s disease who was misdiagnosed and mistreated.