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Unusual. a Rare Syndrome: After a Stroke, She Wakes up with a Russian Accent
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When a Canadian woman regained consciousness after surgery, her voice had changed. She suddenly spoke with a Russian accent. Despite her best efforts, she is unable to speak in her original voice.
A Canadian woman, Tara Livingston, sees her life being upset because of a rather unknown evil: the foreign accent syndrome. After having been a victim of a stroke and having been operated on in an emergency, she started to...
A woman woke up with a Russian accent and says strangers think she's faking it. Tara Livingston from Canada went to sleep and woke up sounding like she was from Russia. The 56-year-old suffered a stroke that left her with aphasia and apraxia of speech - conditions that affect language and the ability to form words. She began intensive speech therapy and slowly began learning how to speak again. But after undergoing minor surgery near her eye, sh…
A victim of a stroke in November 2023, a 56-year-old Canadian woman has been suffering since she woke up and started speaking with an involuntary Russian accent. A very rare disorder.
Tara Livingston's 56-year-old life changed in November 2023 after having been the victim of a stroke. If she survives the episode, the sequelae are unfortunately very real. She suffers from aphasia, difficulties in articulating and troubles in the construction of sentences. An intensive orthophonic rehabilitation had to be put in place so that she gradually learns to speak. Fortunately, day after day, she regains a certain fluidity, even if fati…
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