Rare Case Of Foreign-Accent Syndrome Reported In Canada
Jul 5th 2008Drug InformationNeurology / Neuroscience
A woman in southern Ontario is one of the first cases in Canada of a rare neurological syndrome in which a person starts speaking with a different accent, McMaster University researchers report in the July issue of the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. The puzzling medical phenomenon known as foreign-accent syndrome (FAS) arises from neurological damage, and results in vocal distortions that typically sound like the speaker has a new, “foreign” accent.
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