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Re: Surgery for stuttering

From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 09 Oct 2006
Time: 10:57:35 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.42

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Dear Maciste, I hope I have the correct first name for you. Thanks for your question. Actually, there is no surgery that has been found useful for stuttering. More than 150 years ago, Dieffenbach carried out surgeries for stutterers in Germany where part of the tongue was taken out. Others over the years have cut the lingual frenum. We are quite sure that most stuttering originates from difficulties, not well understood, in the brain. And these difficulties likely have more to do with improper function of certain parts of the brain rather than abnormal brain tissue. Best wishes, Ken


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