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Probably the case for me. As I have thought it was my breathing patterns that made it weird it wasn’t it was my brain. I did hit my head when I was younger and started stuttering several times after t...

Cluttering has similar brain regions involved to stuttering, but there seem to be subtle differences. Cluttering has lowered activation of brocas area like stuttering, and has abnormalities in the bas...

As someone with bipolar disorder who takes mood stabilizers and antipsychotics (both of these are dopamine inhibiting) these drugs have made my stutter so much worse. Especially Caplyta. Maybe it’s th...

Yes, there is a downside to these medications. Unfortunately, they reduce dopamine throughout the brain, so regions that we don't want to be affected are also impacted too. At the wrong dosages, such ...

ADHD medications increase dopamine throughout the brain, just like dopamine antagonists (the ones for stuttering) reduce dopamine throughout the brain rather than it being targeted. How do your ADHD m...

Yes. Ecopipam is a D1 antagonist. So it will reduce dopamine from binding to that D1 receptor. On the circuitry that I laid out, it will inhibit the direct pathway. In my opinion, ecopipam had no busi...

This is a good point. Most, if not all, of those case studies had a pre-existing disorder like schizophrenia for instance. Olanzapine would be the culprit, samidophan has a different mechanism unrelat...

My hypothesis is that stuttering is a symptom that can be caused by different groups of issues. Like we can all have a stutter but the biological driver of it is different. Anecdotally this tracks giv...

I’m in the same camp, but I find that the stuttering gets worse if dopamine is low or feels too high (when meds feel all edge and not smooth). Sometimes there is a perfect point with meds where I ha...

How do you explain the fact that some dopamine antagonists, such as olanzapine can actually CAUSE stuttering (and yet, at the same time olanzapine is a treatment for stuttering in some people)? I dev...

Ok... figured it was a "region" thing... but, stimulants don't differentiate their biochemical impact between this region of brain and that... So, if stims increase dop. in region specific to ADHD an...

The difference is in the regions of the brain with altered dopamine. In ADHD, the region of interest is the prefrontal cortex with low dopamine. In stuttering, the dorsal striatum is the region of int...

Ok... but... in people with ADHD (such as myself) who have low dopamine, hence taking stimulants, can still (such as myself) exhibit a stutter... ?...

Dopamine and its role in stuttering

Dopamine and its role in stuttering We hear a lot about dopamine in relation to stuttering. I’m sure you’ve heard it brought up at some point. I want to provide some clarity on what the role dopamine ...

Most stutterers do not stutter when speaking alone. Could this suggest that speech execution has been maladaptively conditioned in the presence of certain individuals? What are the strengths and challenges of this assertion?

Most stutterers do not stutter when speaking alone. Could this suggest that speech execution has been maladaptively conditioned in the presence of certain individuals? What are the strengths and chall...

Here is what I found. How do you guys view this? "*Yairi’s (Phd) observation that stuttering almost never begins before 1.5 years of age has been backed up by lots of people. And it is certainly true...

>*"Singing has a steady flow, avoids the stops and starts of regular speech, and feels less stressful, which helps bypass stuttering triggers. It also engages both brain hemispheres and often involves...

This phenomenon is extremely common with stutterer. Stutterers can sing fluently because singing uses different brain pathways than speech, focusing on rhythm and melody. Singing has a steady flow, a...

And what do you think? Why lefthanded people are  more tended to stutter? Just your opinion and your thoughts. ...

Me neither (well, if I still stutter a little when I whisper), but I think it's right because we don't suffer from the stress and pressure that the idea of ​​communicating causes (because the stutteri...