This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Topic Collections  • Neurology  • Behavioral Neurology  • Laryngology/ Speech/ Language Pathology  • Alert me on articles by topic  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

I have noticed a discussion of a familial neuro-oromotor dysfunction syndrome with dsymorphia in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's (1821-1880) classic novel Crime and Punishment (1866) (part I, chapter 2), ". . . Kapernaumov's lame, and he suffers from a speech disorder, like the numerous members of his family. His wife has a speech disorder too. . . ."^1(p24-25) The condition of the Kapernaumovs is discussed further in part IV, chapter 4: ". . . He [Kapernaumov] has a stammer, and he's lame too. His wife's that way, as well. . . . She hasn't actually got a stammer, but she can't get her words out properly. She's kind, very. And he's a former house-serf. The've got seven children. . . . Only the eldest one has a stammer, and the others are simply ill . . . and they don't stammer. . . ."^1(p377) The exact nature of the malady of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Eric Altschuler, MD, PhD
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
1425 Madison Ave, Box 1240
New York, NY 10029
(e-mail: Eric.Altschuler@mssm.edu)

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?