Neuropsychological and Psychophysiological Studies in Logopsychotherapy: In Memory of J.M. Glozman

Abstract

The article is devoted to research in logopsychotherapy related to J.M. Glozman. Logoneurosis is a disease that affects 1–2.5 % of the population according to various sources, which is why effective methods of rehabilitation are so important. One of the effective methods is group logopsychotherapy, a technique developed for adults and adolescents by Yu.B. Nekrasova in the 1960s and subsequently monogamously improved. A special stage in scientific research in the system of family group speech therapy began with the arrival of J.M. Glozman. In the groups of family logopsychotherapy, A.A. Kiselnikov conducted a systematic inter- and multidisciplinary study of the brain mechanisms of stuttering under the guidance of J.M. Glozman and V.A. Vartanov in 2004–2006, showing the determinacy of this speech disorder by many psychological variables. It has been shown that the disintegration of left-right hemisphere interactions in the realization of mental activity can be one of the mechanisms of stuttering. It was revealed that stuttering is not an isolated (purely peripheral) speech disorder, but occurs in a syndrome of specific mnestic, neurodynamic and motor defects reflecting dysfunction of the posterior and median structures of the brain (functional blocks I and III, according to A.R. Luria (1973)), and the symptoms of dysfunction decrease during complex speech therapy. In the course of 2015–2020 studies supported by the RGNF and RFBR, which were conducted with groups of stuttering people, as well as at the Neurocorrection Center with children with learning difficulties (Glozman, Karpova, Cheburashkin-Antipov, 2018b), it was also shown that inadequate methods of psychological protection in case of violations or lack of communication skills may be associated with defects the image of verbal communication. It has been shown that the appearance of stuttering is facilitated if the child has the phenomenon of crosslaterality. Psychophysiological studies have also shown the role of functional asymmetry of the brain in the formation of the disease, and the effectiveness of logopsychotherapy for the correction of logoneurosis has also been confirmed.