Similarities in speech and white matter characteristics in idiopathic developmental stuttering and adult-onset stuttering
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Similarities in speech and white matter characteristics in idiopathic developmental stuttering and adult-onset stuttering.
Adult-onset stuttering (AS) typically occurs following neurological and/or psychological trauma, considered different from developmental stuttering (DS), which starts during early childhood with few if any new cases reported after adolescence. Here we report four cases of AS, two with apparent psychological trigger and two without, none with evidence of neurological injury, and none conforming ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurolinguistics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0911-6044
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2008.11.004