how to cite this article: saeedi borujeni mj, esfandiary e, almasi dooghaee m. childhood neurogenic stuttering due to bilateral congenital abnormality in globus pallidus: a case report and review of the literature. iran j child neurol. autumn 2016; 10(4):75-79.   abstract objective the basal ganglia are a group of structures that act as a cohesive functional unit. they are situated at the base ...

This case study describes a 16-year-old boy who started to stutter after a rotavirus infection followed by signs suggestive of a cerebellar encephalitis. It illustrates the fact that acquired stuttering can be observed in younger children and that it may be difficult to distinguish neurogenic from psychogenic forms of acquired stuttering in some cases. This is especially true following a diseas...

A 29 year old, right-handed male of African origin was admitted to a primary stroke center hospital for left-sided weakness accompanied by stuttering speech of 48 h duration. Results of magnetic resonance imaging brain scan demonstrated a small acute infarction in the right periventricular corona radiata white matter on diffusion weighted sequences. Thorough evaluation of his speech and languag...

We report neurological information and experimental data regarding acquired neurogenic stuttering in a 57-year-old male following ischemic lesion to the orbital surface of the right frontal lobe and the pons. The experimental data consist of stuttering frequency measures under various conditions that are well known to enhance fluency in most individuals with developmental stuttering. Specifical...

Background and purpose: The acute onset of stuttering in an adult is not uncommon and rarely is caused by ischemic stroke. A neurologist is likely to encounter this presentation and it is important to identify distinguishing features between ischemic stroke and other causes. Adult-onset acquired stuttering is classified as either neurogenic if secondary to brain injury or psychogenic in the abs...

Corticobasal ganglionic degeneration (CBGD) is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by gradual nerve cell loss and atrophy of the cerebral cortex and basal ganglia. Symptoms of the disorder include verbal apraxia and language disturbances along with bradykinesia and rigidity. There have been no reports to date of acquired or neurogenic stuttering associated with CBGD. We describe a...

Acquired (neurogenic) stuttering is a rare phenomenon seen after cerebral infarction or brain injury. Aetiology of this symptom is unclear, but recent evidence supports that it is a disturbance in the left hemispheric neural network involving the interplay between the cortex and basal ganglia. We present the case of a patient who develops acquired stuttering after a recurrence of a right tempor...

A 38-year-old right-handed male with no history of speech or language problems presented with neurogenic stuttering following an ischaemic lesion of the left thalamus. He stuttered severely in propositional speech (conversation, monologue, confrontation naming, and word retrieval) but only slightly in non-propositional speech (automatic speech, sound, word and sentence repetition, and reading a...

BACKGROUND Acquired neurogenic stuttering has been considered a fairly uncommon clinical occurrence; speech-activated myoclonus is a rare entity that can mimic stuttering and is caused by a wide array of etiologies. CASE REPORT Here we report a patient with myoclonus-dystonia syndrome (MDS), due to an identified disease-causing mutation, who displayed speech-activated myoclonus mimicking stut...