BACKGROUND oral language disorder and epilepsy in childhood. AIM to verify the occurrence of oral language disorders in epileptic preschoolers attended at the Child Neurology Section of a university hospital. METHOD a prospective study with 30 epileptic children who were submitted to an oral speech-language evaluation. INCLUSION CRITERIA explicit diagnosis of epilepsy according to the ILA...

BACKGROUND Serious skin disorders have been associated with the use of oral antifungals in a number of case reports and series of cases. However the incidence of these disorders remains unknown. METHODS We estimated the risk of serious skin disorders in a cohort of users of oral antifungals identified in the general population of the General Practice Research Database in the UK. The cohort in...

PURPOSE Speech and other oral functions such as swallowing have been compared and contrasted with oral behaviors variously labeled quasispeech, paraspeech, speechlike, and nonspeech, all of which overlap to some degree in neural control, muscles deployed, and movements performed. Efforts to understand the relationships among these behaviors are hindered by the lack of explicit and widely accept...

Psychosomatic disorders are the consequences of harmful effects that result from psychic influences on the organic control of tissues.1 The oral cavity is related directly or symbolically to the major human instincts and passions and is linked to potential physical expressions of psychological origin.1 Psychosomatic disorders are defined as disorders characterized by physiological changes that ...