Brain Trauma: A Temporary 'Cure' for Stuttering

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Date: 18 Oct 2005
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Hi Scott: read your “Brain Trauma: A Temporary ‘Cure’ for Stuttering?” with much interest. Even though your experience and mine are dissimilar I would suggest your readers read an article my wife, Maxine, and I wrote for “The Speak Easy Newsletter” Spring 2000 edition “Stutter Free Speech the Hard Way: A First Person Report, Via Transient Global Amnesia.” Quoting from the article: “All throughout the ER experience I was completely fluent. Completely! Of course with TGA I could not know it, remember it, nor savor the pleasure of being a fluent speaker.” We ended the article with these questions: “Why was Jerry fluent? Is memory a factor in continuing to stutter? Were there brain dysfunctions or blockages of such a subtle nature that stuttering was absent? Is stuttering a function of habit that is obscured by memory loss? Can the brain be zapped in a particular area to block the memory of stuttering? We are sure that there are many more questions to be asked. Will the answers impact upon the treatment of stuttering? We hope so.” Jerry Johnson, Professor Emeritus, Univ. Wis. Stevens Point.


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