commentr/StutterJuly 16, 2023

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My brainstorm ideas to get tips for stuttering remission: [Research](https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/8/1030): "*Reinvestigating the Neural Bases Involved in Speech Production of Stutterers: An ALE Meta-Analysis*". "Many studies have investigated neural activities in stuttering, but the cognitive neural mechanism of stuttering has still not been fully determined. Our analysis revealed overactivation in the bilateral posterior superior temporal gyrus, inferior frontal gyrus, medial frontal gyrus, precentral gyrus, postcentral gyrus, basal ganglia, and cerebellum, and deactivation in the anterior superior temporal gyrus and middle temporal gyrus among the stutterers." **Conclusion**: "The overactivated regions might indicate a greater demand in feedforward planning in speech production, while the deactivated regions might indicate dysfunction in the auditory feedback system among stutterers. Based on the directions into velocities of articulators model and state feedback control theory, our findings provided support for the greater demand in the feedforward system in speech production. More importantly, solid evidence was provided for the dysfunction in the auditory feedback system, which might be the crucial cause of stuttering. These findings suggest that abnormal neural underpinnings of PWS were a result of dysfunction in various cortical–subcortical–cerebellar networks."

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