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This might be because your mouth is growing but your tongue isn't, or the other way around. My speech therapist told me that my mouth is smaller than average so that could be why I stutter, but there ...

I had a professor with it. He taught psychology and he actually talked about what physically/mentally made him stutter, which was cool to learn about. He brought it up first day of class. He was such ...

it doesn't invalidate the genetic and neurological hypothesis. We know that shock can trigger stuttering, but that doesn't mean it's purely psychological. In fact, we know from numerous studies that t...

Ok I'd never heard of cluttering before so I thought you were kidding and then I looked it up and it's actually exactly what's going on so thank you very very much!...

Neurogenic stutters lack the secondary behaviors of persistent stuttering. The individual does not typically block, blink, or engage in circumlocution. They might not even be aware of the stutter if i...

While their have been stuttering genes found by Dr Drayna and co (they actually made mice stutter) their is no proof about “imbalance signalling molecules in the brain”. This is one hypothesis of thou...

It’s not a matter of ‘way of thinking’.. it’s an actual speech disorder that recent studies found that stuttering is linked to reduced blood flow in the area of the brain that produces speech! Not t...

Stuttering is due to an imbalance of signalling molecules in your brain called neurotransmitters. The main neurotransmitter effected is dopamine. Dopamine is responsible for initiating and maintaining...

Of course stuttering is the miscoordination between the brain and the muscles that produce speech. You have to learn to not read literally. I was not disregarding that reality. I am, however, correct ...

Yes, anxiety makes stuttering worse. That's a wholly different thing than an anxiety disorder and that kind of pathologizing is dangerous. What evidence do you have it's very rare for PWS to not have ...

Stuttering is either neurological or passed down from your family, stressful situations can very well increase disfluencies. Stuttering is variable and you can experience months of fluency and then st...

Exhaustive research has not done in this field but in last few years, there are clues that there is less circulation of blood in areas of brain that process language for speaking. I have felt when I a...

Someone who speaks french/spanish wants to play some little coop games?

Someone who speaks french/spanish wants to play some little coop games? Hey, so yeah I'm not really comfortable in english, so if you speak french or spanish and want to play something coop like maybe...

It's weird because I feel like my speech began deteriorating at the age of 17. I can tell you that I was very articulate back in my teen years. I have no idea how this happened. Maybe it's karma fo...

RESEARCH PURPOSES: Do you have any peculiarity regarding your mental process?

RESEARCH PURPOSES: Do you have any peculiarity regarding your mental process? Better if it's a dopamine related thing, but you can comment anything that you think is strange. Such as being talented i...

Brain disorders such as autism have seen such tremendous results from treating a persons gut, why would stuttering be put into a different category that would be completely over looked? That isn’t the...

Why I’ve made this link is that the gut directly communicates with the brain. Autism is a brain disorder which has seen tremendous results from treating people’s guts. Now gluten creates an immune res...

Thank you so much man, a common misconception among stutterers is people think we are mentally challenged but in reality, we are often quite smart, we know exactly what we want to say we just can’t ge...

This is from a paper by Torrey Loucks written in 2011 Corpus callosum differences associated with persistent stuttering in adults Recent studies have implicated anatomical differences in speec...

Amphetamine is a potent full agonist of the trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) and interacts with vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2). Combined action on TAAR1 and VMAT2 results in increa...