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Re: Medications (not for treating stuttering)

From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 06 Oct 2010
Time: 16:51:33 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.31

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Hi Judy, Good question, but I don't know this area as well as others on this esteemed panel. I do know that the "old" STUTT-L list (just recently terminated) has had a number of threads over the years where individuals who stuttered wrote about various medications that either made them stutter more or less. There was some talk about saving the archives of the old STUTT-L (not to be confused with the new Google group also called stutt-l). Maybe Judy Kuster can comment on that. If those archives are available, you could go through and find lots of anecdotal reports. The problem with anecdotal reports is that it becomes very risky to generalize from them. On an obliquely related note, I guest edited a special edition of the Journal of Fluency Disorders about 15 years ago on cluttering, where we asked for all the anecdotal case studies and small group studies we could get. The issue was built around making some sense of all those disjointed reports. I'll leave to others to comment on whether or not we succeeded. At that time, I thought someone should do the same thing with drug effects on stuttering. Maybe it really is time for such an issue. Of course, in recent years, some quite good studies have been carried out (with a few dissenting opinions) investigating Pagaclone. Aside from rambling a bit, I hope I offered some food for thought. Ken


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