Severe stuttering associated with right hemisphere lesion

Brain Lang. 1986 Mar;27(2):239-46. doi: 10.1016/0093-934x(86)90018-0.

Abstract

Following a right hemisphere stroke, a right-handed, 50-year-old male experienced a permanent dysfluency characterized by phoneme and syllable reiterations and, to a lesser extent, word and phrase reiterations. The reiterations occurred in initial, medial, and final positions and for all sentence elements (e.g., subject nouns, object nouns, verbs, modifiers). There was a notable loss of verbal automatisms (poems, songs, etc.). The patient's symptoms conform to the acquired stuttering syndrome described by A. Helm, R. Butler, and D.F. Benson (1978, Neurology, 28, 1159-1165).

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cerebrovascular Disorders / complications*
  • Dominance, Cerebral / physiology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Speech Production Measurement
  • Stuttering / etiology*
  • Stuttering / psychology