It’s time for a break from COVID columns. A new case of a rare syndrome called foreign accent syndrome (FAS) was recently reported in various news services. It was experienced by a 28-year-old ...

Oregon native Karen Butler speaks with a British accent since dental surgery. May 5, 2011— -- Karen Butler is from Oregon, not England. When asked where she got her accent, she says from her ...

Imagine waking up one ordinary morning, feeling perfectly normal, only to discover that the very sound of your voice has been utterly transformed. It’s a scenario so surreal, so profoundly ...

It sounds like something from a medical TV drama like “Grey’s Anatomy,” but last week a story began trending about a teenage native English speaker who woke up from a coma with a new ability to speak ...

Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is an uncommon motor speech disorder characterised by the emergence of an accent perceived as non-native, often following neurological insults such as stroke. Unlike ...

It is true that many rare medical conditions have extremely bizarre symptoms, but foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is up there!

The woman sitting across the table asks a question, one she’s repeated so many times it’s become a parlor game, one she wishes she didn’t have to play. Guess, Paula Noble says, gesturing at her mouth ...

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