title: Foreign Accent Syndrome As a Psychogenic Disorder: A Review.
abstract: In the majority of cases published between 1907 and 2014, FAS is due to a neurogenic etiology. Only a few reports about FAS with an assumed psychogenic origin have been published. The present article discusses the findings of a careful database search on psychogenic FAS. This review may be particularly relevant as it is the first to analyze the salient features of psychogenic FAS cases to date. This article hopes to pave the way for the view that psychogenic FAS is a cognate of neurogenic FAS. It is felt that this variant of FAS may have been underreported, as most of the psychogenic cases have been published after the turn of the century. This review may improve the diagnosis of the syndrome in clinical practice and highlights the importance of recognizing psychogenic FAS as an independent taxonomic entity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Clinical and Experimental Neurolinguistics, Vrije Universiteit BrusselBrussels, Belgium; Department of Linguistics, Center for Language and Cognition, Rijksuniversiteit GroningenGroningen, Netherlands.
authors.forename: Stefanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Keulen
authors.affiliation: Department of Language and Communication Science, School of Health Sciences, City University LondonLondon, UK; Department of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics Research Center, Universiteit AntwerpenAntwerp, Belgium.
authors.forename: Jo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Verhoeven
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Clinical and Experimental Neurolinguistics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Elke
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: De Witte
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Clinical and Lifespan Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Louis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: De Page
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics, Center for Language and Cognition, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Groningen, Netherlands.
authors.forename: Roelien
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bastiaanse
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Clinical and Experimental Neurolinguistics, Vrije Universiteit BrusselBrussels, Belgium; Department of Neurology and Memory Clinic, ZNA Middelheim General HospitalAntwerp, Belgium.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mariën
keywords: foreign accent syndrome; non-organic FAS; psychogenic; review; speech disorder