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In 2016, a Texas woman, Lisa Alamia, was diagnosed with foreign accent syndrome when, following a jaw surgery, she developed what sounded like a British accent. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] Ellen Spencer, a woman from Indiana who has foreign accent syndrome, was interviewed on the American public radio show Snap Judgment . [ 51 ]
Her doctors suspect she may be suffering from a rare neurological condition called “foreign accent syndrome,” which can happen after traumatic brain injuries.
Dysprosody, which may manifest as pseudo-foreign accent syndrome, refers to a disorder in which one or more of the prosodic functions are either compromised or eliminated. [ 1 ] Prosody refers to the variations in melody, intonation , pauses, stresses, intensity, vocal quality, and accents of speech. [ 2 ]
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Wendi Michelle Scott (born March 3, 1975) [1] is a Frederick, Maryland mother of two who was charged on November 16, 2007, with sickening her four-year-old daughter in a case of Münchausen syndrome by proxy. [2] Scott was charged with first- and second-degree child abuse, first- and second-degree assault, and reckless endangerment. [2]
A Georgia mom is refusing to strike a plea deal after she was arrested on child endangerment-related charges over her 10-year-old son’s unsupervised walk into town.
French parapsychologist Charles Richet coined the term xenoglossy in 1905.. Xenoglossy (/ ˌ z iː n ə ˈ ɡ l ɒ s i, ˌ z ɛ-,-n oʊ-/), [1] also written xenoglossia (/ ˌ z iː n ə ˈ ɡ l ɒ s i ə, ˌ z ɛ-,-n oʊ-/) [2] [3] and sometimes also known as xenolalia, is the supposedly paranormal phenomenon in which a person is allegedly able to speak, write or understand a foreign language ...
A Spring Township woman was charged Wednesday in the death of her newborn son who died earlier this year after sleeping on a pillowlike pad, which she’d been warned was unsafe.