[Disorders of recognition of emotional and prosodic characteristics of speech in various mental disorders in patients with focal cortical epilepsy].

As many as 99 patients with focal epilepsy were examined for recognition of the emotional-prosodic++ speech characteristics, non-vocal acoustic complexes, acoustic and acoustic vocal memory as well as for noise stability of the acoustic vocal system. The presence, character and intensity of psychopathological abnormalities identified in those patients were estimated at a time. The correlation and factorial analyses made it possible to discover the existence of significant relationships between the two lines of abnormalities. Several types of such relationships have been described. It is assumed that in some cases, disorders of impressive emotional psychoacoustic functions may represent one of the pathogenetic mechanisms of mental disorders associated with focal cortical epilepsy.