title: [A rare neurologically originated speech disorder: foreign accent syndrome].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is an unusual neurological speech disorder documented in not more than twenty specific studies. As a consequence of a cerebral mainly subcortical injury, the patient s speech is foreign sounding to native listeners. As subject cannot avoid this foreign accent, and given its abrupt emergence, this disorder usually involves emotional consequences by loss of identity and of belonging to a speech community.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this paper, a case from Castellón de la Plana (Spain) is presented with a injury in right basal ganglia and the literature about this topic is revised.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  From the available data, we describe the main characteristics of the syndrome and discuss the possible role of basal ganglia
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psicología Básica, Universidad Jaume I., Castellon de la Plana, España. gonzalez@psb.uji.es
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: González-Alvarez
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Parcet-Ibars
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Avila
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Geffner-Sclarsky
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001479:Basal Ganglia / Q000473:pathology; D002341:Carotid Artery Thrombosis / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019303:Multilingualism; D011379:Prognosis; D013030:Spain; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013577:Syndrome; D014705:Verbal Behavior