A Rare Side Effect of Surgery: A Funky Foreign Accent
File this under strange but true: I recently saw a news story about a woman who had minor dental surgery and woke up from the operation speaking with a foreign accent. Post-surgery, Oregon native Karen Butler awoke to find she now spoke with a hodgepodge European accent. Doctors thought it might fade, but two years [...]
Tags: brain mystery, FAS, foreign accent syndrome, rare stroke, stroke
Posted May 17, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience
Posit Science's corporate blog is the place where our employees share their thoughts about Posit Science and its products, brain fitness, breakthroughs in neuroscience, and any other topic they find interesting and relevant. 
