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I've had seen one as kid, did EEG. They found slightly underdeveloped cerebellum if I can remember, but ofc might be wrong, since as a child i didn't fully follow their instructions (it's pretty hard ...

There are contexts where a neurologist could be relevant (e.g. sudden onset stutter), but for regular stutter, it's likely not going to yield anything of use. Perhaps they wouldn't even know what to ...

I went to see one with my dad(I’m 17M) a few months ago for insomnia. After the first three words I said he interrupted me and asked why I was stuttering in the most arrogant way. Treated me like I wa...

Have any of y’all seen a neurologist?

Have any of y’all seen a neurologist? Hi folks, lifelong (23F) stutterer here. I’m seeing a neurologist for the first time in about a month for a different issue, but my new PCP (I moved across the co...

TL;DR - Yes. Contrary to the conventional knowledge about stuttering, you can dramatically reduce the long-term severity of your stutter. Your brain adapts a certain way to Fluency-Shaping therapy. I...

From a research perspective, establishing biochemical basis of “good days/bad days” would be nearly impossible due to the unpredictability of the disorder and the difficulty replicating conditions for...

Are our "good days" the blueprint in curing stuttering?

Are our "good days" the blueprint in curing stuttering? So, I was thinking about this, as y'all know every stutter has their "good days" and "bad days," meaning that we stutter more or less depending ...

Hi, just saw you scrolling trough new, I never stuttered but I'm a heavy marijuana user: Weed tends to make people overly self-conscious, and I fear that ever since you might have been in a downwa...

I don’t usually announce to another person who stutters that I also stutter, I have a neurogenic stutter due to MS, so it’s not always present, and not necessarily obvious that I have issues with stut...

Have you experienced any brain trauma/concussions within the last few months? I wasn't born stuttering either - I suffered bad whiplash in a car accident when I was 7 yrs old and began stuttering a ...

It’s most likely genetic and/or neurological. Your research is pretty outdated and borderline offensive. Anxiety doesn’t cause stuttering, stuttering can cause anxiety....

Just an FYI, while the cause of stuttering isn't 100% definite, there is strong research suggesting that the cause is physiological - NOT psychological. I mean this in a friendly way...please do more ...

God DAMN that sucks. If you're in America, I would definitely look at talking to the state employment office about your rights under the ADA. Fucking with the general public as a stutterer is a sp...

I have just begun to try it, I'm in day 2 exercises. I think it provides valuable information to understanding stutter and the causes regarding it (I didn't know for example that stutterers shift the ...

Makes sense really. Bilingual people use different parts of their brain for speech. not enough is known about the causes of stuttering to explain anything, so whatever works for us is awesome!...

Well the left part of the brain is in charge of the language and talking. If there are some connections not like they should be then ya have a stutter. But when you make something a reflex than it isn...

You mean you did a ton of googling or you actually did a research? Did you google vitamin B1 overdose?...

Because it's an internal problem not a speech issue and the human system is very complicated and science has a very poor understanding of it...

I don't recall any such general link being made by the research. Also, it's not yet known how exactly stutter works, so the research isn't done yet. There seems to be many factors involved....

Stuttering is considered a disability. There are certain people who have such a sever stutter that it incapacitates them from communicating at all, which is necessary in most societies. Also, since ...