title: Short case report: 'Speaking in tongues'--foreign accent syndrome.
abstract: Foreign accent syndrome is a rare dysprosody in which pronunciation of a patient's speech is perceived by same-language listeners as sounding foreign. Sixty cases have been described between 1941 and 2009. It is commonly associated with an acquired brain injury (vascular insult/head injury), but also with psychogenic illness and has been described in two cases as a developmental problem. Here we describe a case secondary to a minor electrocution associated with no evidence of structural brain injury on imaging.
authors.affiliation: Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, ENT , Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham, B4 6NH , United Kingdom. dulanimendis@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Dulani
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mendis
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Haselden
authors.forename: Declan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Costello
mesh_terms: D004556:Electric Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D008875:Middle Aged; D010700:Phonetics; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014833:Voice Quality