A person speaks outside of Alaska Public Media on October 22, 2025. Stuttering is a condition that affects the rhythm and flow of speech for 3 million people in the US. It’s not caused by anxiety or a ...

Oftentimes, people who stutter can fluently speak the same words that trip them up at the beginning of a sentence if the exact same words are spoken later in the same sentence. Hence, there's reason ...

Stuttering—a speech disorder in which sounds, syllables or words are repeated or prolonged—affects more than 70 million people worldwide. That's 1 percent of the global population. Four times as many ...

The study results, reported in the July 24 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology, provide the first evidence that anatomic abnormalities within the areas of ...

OXFORD – Many people consider stuttering just a simple speech disorder. But University of Mississippi professor Gregory Snyder and a team of student researchers are working to upend that thinking and ...

Mice that vocalize in a repetitive, halting pattern similar to human stuttering may provide insight into a condition that has perplexed scientists for centuries, according to a new study by ...

In February, Presidential candidate Joe Biden opened up about his lifelong stutter during a CNN town hall. "It has nothing to do with your intelligence quotient. It has nothing to do with your ...

COVID-19 has left scores of survivors with bizarre had debilitating neurological effects that range from mani to neurological episodes, a new report reveals. A 40-year-old teacher who has spent his ...

INDIANAPOLIS — With every week that passes there are more people joining the COVID-19 survivor ranks. Some of them are fully recovered, but the long-haulers, like Amanda Wood from Center Grove, are ...

Basal ganglia regions are located in the midbrain. Source: CLIPAREA l Custom media/Shutterstock Stuttering during childhood is a relatively common occurrence. Roughly one in 20 kids (5 percent) go ...

UCSB stuttering researchers Janis Ingham, left, Scott Grafton, Matt Cieslak and Roger Inghan stand by the Brain Imaging Center’s MRI scanner used in their research. (Spencer Bruttig / UCSB photo) ...