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From: Tom Weidig (thestutteringbrain.blogspot.com)
Date: 07 Oct 2005
Time: 01:56:13 -0500
Remote Name: 83.99.88.214
There are two studies I know of. 1) J Fluency Disord. 2003 Winter;28(4):357-79; quiz 379-80. A positron emission tomography study of short- and long-term treatment effects on functional brain activation in adults who stutter. by De Nil LF, Kroll RM, Lafaille SJ, Houle S. 2) J Fluency Disord. 2005;30(1):23-39. Cortical plasticity associated with stuttering therapy. by Neumann K, Preibisch C, Euler HA, von Gudenberg AW, Lanfermann H, Gall V, Giraud AL. Neumann K, Euler HA, von Gudenberg AW, Giraud AL, Lanfermann H, Gall V, Preibisch C. (see also The nature and treatment of stuttering as revealed by fMRI A within- and between-group comparison. J Fluency Disord. 2003 Winter;28(4):381-409; quiz 409-410. Generally speaking, the studies found a change in activation after a fluency shaping therapy. But I think we need to be careful when it comes to the details and not jump to conclusions. We need more research. (To read the abstracts, go to PubMedline: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi and enter keywords)