Stuttering can be cured in a week

For a long time considered incurable stammering can be substantially correct with just one week of speech therapy. This conclusion Chinese researchers.

In the online version of the journal Neurology, owned by the American Academy of Neurology, published data from a study of scientists from China. They found that speech therapy lasting just one week helps stuttering treatment   through the reorganization of the brain. This new look at the role of different brain regions in stuttering, which affects 1% of all inhabitants of our planet.

Scientists from China attracted to the study of 28 people with stuttering and 13 without it. 15 participants went through speech therapy for a week with three lessons a day. Other stutterers and people in the control group received no treatment. During sessions with experts from the first group of people dvuslogovye repeated the words uttered experts, and then read aloud the words on the paper.

The duration of each exercise is not limited by time. At the end of treatment were carried out control tests, which showed that the level of stuttering people from the first group significantly decreased, and the members of the control group no change. At the beginning and end of the study participants received through scanning cortex. Scientists have also followed the connections between different areas of the brain a rest. It was found that the density and strength of these bonds have been reduced stutterers in the part of the brain that is responsible for the process of speech and language - tegmental part (lat. Pars opercularis).

An increase in the density and strength of connections among stutterers compared to people in the control group was noted in the cerebellum. Aisle speech therapy functional connectivity in the cerebellum was reduced to the same level as in the control group. Changes in tegmental portion after therapy was observed.

Thus, it was proved that by speech therapy can cause brain reorganize themselves. What can be used when speech therapists stuttering treatment .

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