Reduced intracortical inhibition and facilitation in the primary motor tongue representation of adults who stutter

NE Neef, W Paulus, A Neef, AW von Gudenberg… - Clinical …, 2011 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: We aimed at detecting neurophysiological changes, in the primary motor
tongue representation in adults with persistent stuttering. METHODS: Using transcranial …

Altered modulation of silent period in tongue motor cortex of persistent developmental stuttering in relation to stuttering severity

P Busan, G Del Ben, S Bernardini, G Natarelli… - Plos one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Motor balance in developmental stuttering (DS) was investigated with Transcranial Magnetic
Stimulation (TMS), with the aim to define novel neural markers of persistent DS in adulthood …

The neurobiological grounding of persistent stuttering: from structure to function

NE Neef, A Anwander, AD Friederici - Current neurology and neuroscience …, 2015 - Springer
Neuroimaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation provide insights into the neuronal
mechanisms underlying speech disfluencies in chronic persistent stuttering. In the present …

A review of brain circuitries involved in stuttering

A Craig-McQuaide, H Akram, L Zrinzo… - Frontiers in human …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Stuttering has been the subject of much research, nevertheless its etiology remains
incompletely understood. This article presents a critical review of the literature on stuttering …

Motor excitability evaluation in developmental stuttering: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study

P Busan, A D'Ausilio, M Borelli, F Monti, G Pelamatti… - Cortex, 2013 - Elsevier
INTRODUCTION: Developmental stuttering (DS) is viewed as a motor speech-specific
disorder, although several lines of research suggest that DS is a symptom of a broader …

Neurogenic stuttering: its reticular modulation

S Bhatnagar, H Buckingham - Current neurology and neuroscience …, 2010 - Springer
Emerging neurologic evidence has suggested that developmental and acquired stuttering
may have a cerebral base. Investigations have revealed compensatory activation in the right …

Severity of dysfluency correlates with basal ganglia activity in persistent developmental stuttering

AL Giraud, K Neumann, AC Bachoud-Levi… - Brain and language, 2008 - Elsevier
Previous studies suggest that anatomical anomalies [Foundas, AL, Bollich, AM, Corey, DM,
Hurley, M., & Heilman, KM (2001). Anomalous anatomy of speech-language areas in adults …

Adults who stutter lack the specialised pre-speech facilitation found in non-stutterers

A Whillier, S Hommel, NE Neef… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Objectives Persistent developmental stuttering is a speech fluency disorder defined by its
symptoms, where the underlying neurophysiological causes remain uncertain. This study …

Searching for the neural basis of stuttering treatment outcome: recent neuroimaging studies

LF De Nil, RM Kroll - Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Ever since the first speculations put forward by Orton and Travis in the beginning of the
previous century (Orton, 1928; Travis, 1931), researchers have been intrigued by the …

Impaired motor inhibition in adults who stutter–evidence from speech-free stop-signal reaction time tasks

S Markett, B Bleek, M Reuter, H Pruess, K Richardt… - Neuropsychologia, 2016 - Elsevier
Idiopathic stuttering is a fluency disorder characterized by impairments during speech
production. Deficits in the motor control circuits of the basal ganglia have been implicated in …