Foreign Accent Syndrome, a Rare Presentation of Schizophrenia in a 34-Year-Old African American Female: A Case Report and Literature Review [PDF]
Case Reports in Psychiatry, 2016 Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is a rare phenomenon where speech is characterized by a new accent to the patient’s native language. More than 100 cases with the syndrome have been published, the majority of which were associated with observed insults of ...
Kenneth Asogwa +2 more
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Acquired language disorders beyond aphasia: foreign accent syndrome as a neurological, speech, and psychiatric disorder [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis study examines historical conceptualizations of ‘foreign accent syndrome’ after brain trauma or as an aspect of psychiatric presentations, in addition to comparisons with current conceptualizations.
R. Stewart Longman +2 more
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Foreign Accent Syndrome Mimicked by Garcin Syndrome with Spontaneous Resolution [PDF]
Behavioural Neurology, 2008 An English speaking women developed a French accent, without any aphasic syndromes, in conjunction with multiple left sided cranial nerve deficits, temporally related to cranial trauma.
Michael Hoffmann
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Intonation in neurogenic foreign accent syndrome [PDF]
Journal of Communication Disorders, 2012 Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a motor speech disorder in which changes to segmental as well as suprasegmental aspects lead to the perception of a foreign accent in speech. This paper focuses on one suprasegmental aspect, namely that of intonation.
Kuschmann, Anja +3 more
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Mild developmental foreign accent syndrome and psychiatric comorbidity: Altered white matter integrity in speech and emotion regulation networks [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2016 Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a speech disorder that is defined by the emergence of a peculiar manner of articulation and intonation which is perceived as foreign. In most cases of acquired FAS (AFAS) the new accent is secondary to small focal lesions
Marcelo L Berthier +17 more
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Understanding foreign accent syndrome [PDF]
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2019 Objective Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is widely understood as an unusual consequence of structural neurological damage, but may sometimes represent a functional neurological disorder.
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Psychogenic or neurogenic origin of agrammatism and foreign accent syndrome in a bipolar patient: a case report [PDF]
Annals of General Psychiatry, 2007 Background Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a rare speech disorder characterized by the appearance of a new accent, different from the speaker's native language and perceived as foreign by the speaker and the listener.
Fossard Marion +4 more
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Foreign Language Syndrome: Neurological and Psychiatric Aspects [PDF]
Neurology InternationalForeign Language Syndrome (FLS) is a rare neuropsychiatric condition characterized by the sudden, involuntary use of a non-native language, with concurrent loss or suppression of the native language. Distinct from Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS), FLS often
Ansam Eghzawi, Ali Madha, Rany Aburashed
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Foreign accent syndrome: A typological overview [PDF]
, 2014 Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is a motor speech disorder which causes patients to speak their native language with an accent different from speakers belonging to the same language community: the patient lacks the ability to make the phonemic and phonetic
Bastiaanse, R. +3 more
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A Local Vernacular Variant of the Foreign Accent Syndrome Associated with Wernicke’s Aphasia Masquerading as Dissociative Neurological Symptom Disorder: A Case Report [PDF]
Indian Journal of Psychological MedicineAnirudh Bakam +6 more
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