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I’m in grad school for speech therapy right now. What we know about stuttering- it is genetic and there is a neurophysiological component to it. It’s not caused by environmental trauma but stress can ...

> just remember that stuttering is due to physcholigical fear in your subconscious mind. That's a half truth at best. Stuttering is a motor speech disorder. It has more in common with your golf ...

Stuttering is mostly neurological, from what I have read, with some psychological sprinkling added in for flavor. Not eating (or sleeping as well) will definitely have an effect on your state of mind ...

Ecopipam

Ecopipam Ecopipam is a dopamine antagonist and it is in its last clinical trial. So if it works, it’ll be pushed for FDA approval. Dr Maguire who is a stutterer himself and his team are behind this dr...

In my opinion , the human brain and nervous system is possibly the most complicated system in the universe so i think that anything can be linked to anything in our brains....

It's not something that comes up in stutter material, no. How people think is pretty variant, and it's not determining much of anything. There are particular phenomenons where thinking is impaired o...

Have you talked to your speech therapist about factors that influence your stutter? And how it might be more than just "mood"? I mean, I'm not trying to make you worried or anything, but perhaps there...

Just to note: Whatever the scientific explanation for stuttering might be (and we're not quite done with figuring that out), it doesn't mean we should stop trying to improve things. It's just that it'...

>not make it into some sort of "craft". Again, those who have a lot to struggle with should not feel like it's their own failure to improve that's holding them back. Thank you for your comments, p...

> the damage that causes stuttering I'd be hesitant to put up such a simple statement about how stutter comes about. We know more and more, but we don't know enough yet. Not to merit such a sweepi...

Well, stress increases the difficulty of everything, right? You could be neurologically predisposed to stutter, but you manage it better when you're clear-headed. Then, under stress and discomfort it ...

That study is mindblowing. The authors found a physical source of stuttering. They showed how brain activation during speech differs between stutterers and fluent speakers. They saw how fluency-shapin...

If someone comes and does that particular research, maybe we'll know. :) But it's not a hugely researched topic (since there are many other things that need to be dealt with as well). Or should we sa...

To be fair, the lesion could participate in the problems caused that lead to a stutter - if you consider that speech was not merely a product of the part with the lesion, but dependent on any number o...

I've been doing some research into the causes of stuttering and came across this great article: https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/132/10/2747/330765 TL;DR - Stuttering comes from an underdevelop...

It’s confusing in that most stuttering, in those who haven’t had a traumatic brain Injury, is situational. If a defect in the brain limited speech ability, how would the person be able to speak fluent...

Well it depends. What happens when you try to speak in front of people? Cant get the words out or stammering or something else? Because if its that its probably in the brain. Stuttering is a physica...

I’ve secretly wondered my entire life if amnesia were real and if I had it would I still still stutter. I bet I wouldn’t. So much of this is learned behavior from such a young age we might not know ho...

Oh yeah I’m not expecting it to be cured, I’m going for an entirely different issue unrelated to my stutter, but my PCP and my mom are now curious as to what a neurologist thinks about my stutter. So ...

Yeah, that’s what I was kind of thinking too. I mean I’m going to the neurologist for an entirely different reason independent of my stutter, but now my PCP and my mom are curious as to what a neurolo...