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Thank you for your incredible response. July 3rd was the aphasia, started that day perfectly fine (was always fine with my speech before, I was an English teacher for several years even), by afternoo...
Can you clarify about the aphasia. Was that July 3rd, or was there a previous event? Which doctors have you seen regarding this? I would definitely push your neurologist to do more. I have a wealth ...
Medications
Medications Hi, guys. I heard that dopamin antagonist are basically drugs for treating directly cause of stuttering in the brain, but they are not approved yet by FDA. Have you been on some and what e...
I've looked into psychogenic, but not yet NG. I never stuttered at all until that point....
I’d look into neurogenic stuttering. Have you ever stuttered before?...
Late Onset Stuttering
Late Onset Stuttering Hi, I was officially diagnosed with a stutter/disfluency at the end of my 9th grade year, but it started at the beginning. I could hardly read aloud or talk up in class. It got b...
I posted about this earlier, so I won't get into the full explanation, but we stutterers can actually experience blocks with our hands. Part of it is an issue with initiating motor action, and some of...
They’re not. I’m a stutterer btw. Political leaning aside, he’s not stuttering. Go back and watch his old stuff. No stutter. The guy has had like 4 brain aneurysms and is 100. If I’m wrong, sorry....
This was a good read, thanks for sharing. I am also curious if anyone has any experience with this. Maybe this is a topic for a separate post, but I hadn't heard about a connection to too much dopam...
ADHD and stuttering and bipolar gene luckily got first two and not 3rd!...
Research by Dr Gerald Maguire showing that stuttering can be treated with medication
Research by Dr Gerald Maguire showing that stuttering can be treated with medication More specifically, with **atypical antipsychotics** Dr Maguire (a psychiatrist who stutters) wrote a paper detaili...
Not neurological. Psychological. The Chorus effect supports the idea that when speech is done in unison, anxiety is at a way lower baseline level. Same reason why when you sing lyrics with headphones ...
I feel like my brain might have a neurological misfiring or something. I stutter with my handwriting too....
Nobody in my family stutters. The doctors say that I developed a neurological condition over time and my brain has something wrong with it. I know the real cause tho. It’s because I never stuttered be...
No relatives who stutter. I think I just have a few messed up wires in my brain to be honest...
It’s similar to when you’re singing a song, you’ve processed those words in your brain already, so you don’t have process what you’re saying and relay it at the same time. Stuttering has been linked t...
Its called chorus effect. Here you can see that stuttering is 100% neurological cause...
It is a good book and a good story to read aloud when you practice that. But the book do not give you much concrete steps to follow towards fluency - just remember that. John, Ruth and Lee did overcom...
If you have read John Harrisons book redefining stuttering, that's a good book. You might also want to read Ruth Mead's book speech is a River. Which to some degree elaborates more on his book. Ruth e...
I don't really disagree with the stuff that you wrote. I get the sense from your criticisms in the other comments you are coming from a place of love and not simply to tear people down. To be honest I...