Alleviation of Acquired Stuttering with Human Centremedian Thalamic Stimulation
Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Format of Original
3 p.
Publication Date
10-1989
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group
Source Publication
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
Source ISSN
0022-3050
Original Item ID
doi: 10.1136/jnnp.52.10.1182
Abstract
Despite many investigations, the cerebral mechanism for stuttering remains unknown. Recently, increased attention has been paid to acquired stuttering of adult onset in the hope that the events associated with it might provide clues to the biological mechanism underlying stuttering. This attention has focused exclusively on the cortical substrates. We present our observations of acquired dysfluency, presumably of subcortical origin in a neurosurgical subject with intractable pain. The stuttering was relieved by thalamic electric stimulation. The effect of thalamic stimulation on the stuttering suggests that the pathophysiology of transient asynchronisation in the balancing and sequencing of multiple impulses is amenable to a diffusely orchestrated functional tuning of the thalamic and brainstem implicated subcortical structures and pathways.
Recommended Citation
Bhatnagar, Subhash and Andy, O J., "Alleviation of Acquired Stuttering with Human Centremedian Thalamic Stimulation" (1989). Speech Pathology and Audiology Faculty Research and Publications. 28.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/spaud_fac/28
Comments
Accepted version. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Vol. 52, No. 10 (October 1989): 1182-1184. DOI. © 1989 BMJ Publishing Group. Used with permission.