Stroke-associated stuttering.
OBJECTIVE
To present patients with stuttering speech in association with stroke.


METHODS
Case series with follow-up for 5 years, or until the stuttering resolved.


METHODS
University and community hospital neurology wards, and ambulatory neurology clinics.


METHODS
Four patients who developed stuttering speech in association with an acute ischemic stroke. A 68-year-old man acutely developed stuttering with a large left middle cerebral artery distribution stroke. A 59-year-old man who had stuttered as a child began to stutter 2 months after a left temporal lobe infarction, as nonfluent aphasia was improving. Another childhood stutterer, a 59-year-old originally left-handed man developed severe but transient stuttering with a right parietal infarction. A 55-year-old man with a left occipital infarction had a right hemianopia and an acquired stutter, for which he was anosognosic.


CONCLUSIONS
The clinical presentation of stroke-associated stuttering is variable, as are the locations of the implicated infarctions.
D000368:Aged; D001037:Aphasia; D002536:Cerebral Arteries / Q000473:pathology; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000098:blood supply; D013342:Stuttering / Q000209:etiology*; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000098:blood supply