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The Posterior Fossa and Foreign Accent Syndrome: Report of Two New Cases and Review of the Literature.
Abstract Foreign accent syndrome is a rare motor speech disorder that causes patients to speak their language with a non-native accent. In the neurogenic condition, the disorder develops after lesions in the language dominant hemisphere, often affecting Broca's area, the insula, the supplementary motor area and the primary motor cortex. Here, we present two new cases of FAS after posterior fossa lesions. The first case is a 44-year-old, right-handed, Dutch-speaking man who suffered motor speech disturbances and a left hemiplegia after a pontine infarction. Quantified SPECT showed a bilateral hypoperfusion in the i...
Source: Cerebellum - March 23, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Keulen S, Mariën P, van Dun K, Bastiaanse R, Manto M, Verhoeven J Tags: Cerebellum Source Type: research