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From: Greg Snyder
Date: 05 Oct 2009
Time: 14:20:54 -0500
Remote Name: 130.74.194.74
There are any number of functional studies that document the stuttered brain just not acting like fluent brains during speech and language production. I'm not sure how much detail to cite, but certain parts of the brain are: (a) over-active; (b) active when they should be dormant; (c) dormant when it should be active. But this is relative to function. There are other studies that look at specific neural structures and note differences, on average, between stuttered and non-stuttered brains. So the term "stuttered neural fault" is a general term, suggesting that there are neural differences between the stuttered and neural brains that result in these structural and functional differences. Happy to go into greater detail, if needed...