Foreign accent syndrome

[Future Doc1]

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"If you wake up talking with a strong Jamaican accent, despite the fact that you've never even heard a Jamaican accent before, then the chances are you're suffering from foreign accent syndrome.
The best known case of this syndrome dates from 1941, when a Norwegian woman was ostracised after she was injured during an air raid and began talking with a strong German accent.
This syndrome was once regarded as a psychological disorder, but it's now thought to be a neurological one, which comes about when a stroke or injury damages the part of the brain associated with speech.
The real mystery is how people talk with an accent they've never been exposed to - though recently scientists have come up with a possible explanation. The "foreign-ness" of a sufferer's accent might simply be due to the listener struggling to interpret the change in the sufferer's speech patterns."

-This is pretty cool...👍

 

[Silverman780]

almost as cool as this....😱

There is a very real, very disturbing, and very rare medical condition called "Alien Hand Syndrome" (AHS). An individual with this neurological disorder has full sensation in the rogue hand, but is unable to control its movements, and does not feel that it is a part of their body. The hand becomes personified, as if it has a will of its own, and its owner will usually deny ownership of the limb.

Depending on the cause of the injury, the movements may be random or purposeful, and may effect the dominant or non-dominant hand. The symptoms are brought on by an injury to the brain, such as head trauma, stroke, tumor, or infection, but it can also be a side effect of a certain kind of brain surgery where the patient has the two lobes of the brain separated to relieve severe epilepsy.


When the condition is brought about by a brain tumor, aneurysm, or a stroke, the alien hand may also engage in complex purposeful behavior, such as compulsive manipulation of tools, undoing buttons, or tearing clothes. Sometimes the sufferer is completely unaware of what the hand is doing until it is brought to his or her attention, or until they happen to see it themselves.


C&P from http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=203

 

[xnfs93hy]

I've heard about AHS. It's crazy. I do not know how that even happens :/

 

[xnfs93hy]

http://news.softpedia.com/news/An-Alien-Head-Inducing-Condition-67535.shtml

This explains it well.

 

[Pepipanda]

I've seen things on Discovery Health on both of these. Another interesting one is body integrity identity disorder (BIID), in which people feel that limbs aren't theirs and may desire to amputate, even though there is nothing wrong with the limb. The person in the documentary either did or wanted to put his leg into dry ice in order to force doctors to amputate it. Creepy.

 

[Future Doc1]

I've seen things on Discovery Health on both of these. Another interesting one is body integrity identity disorder (BIID), in which people feel that limbs aren't theirs and may desire to amputate, even though there is nothing wrong with the limb. The person in the documentary either did or wanted to put his leg into dry ice in order to force doctors to amputate it. Creepy.

That is pretty wierd...

 

[Future Doc1]

Another really interesting disease is the case of Chimeric people--
"Imagine going for genetic tests along with your children, only to find that you can't possibly be their biological mother - despite the fact that you gave birth to them. In the case, it turned out that the mother was a chimera (a mix of two individuals). She was the composite of two non-identical twins that had fused in her mother's womb. No-one knows how common chimeras are, but with the rise of fertility treatments and genetic testing, more chimeras are likely to be created and discovered."
--Crazy, isn't it--

 

[tennisball80]

I speak three languages but I have an foreign accent in all of them. Wherever I go somewhere, the people ask me, "Where are you from?" Even my parents tell me that I speak my native language in a foreign accent.

Maybe I caught that disease? 😀

I need some cure. Dr. Tennisball80 would prescribe a make-out with with hot girl will cure my voice cord. This also should fix the psychological aspect of the disease.

 

[slight365]

I speak several languages as well, and can't shake the American out of it.

 

[Arm N Hammer]

Thats really cool...

 

[Silverman780]

"Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Txes M&A Uinervtisy, it deosn't
mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny
iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the
rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll
raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid
deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe

 

[FuturaDocta]

"Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Txes M&A Uinervtisy, it deosn't
mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny
iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the
rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll
raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid
deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe

There is also a study at Cambridge Uni. It is pretty cool, I think.

I love accents. I use to want one so bad as a kid. So, I started speaking in an English accent. I liked the change. I ended up doing several kinds: Hick, French, Chinese, Japanese, New York, Georgia, etc. It is so much fun!

Back to the topic, I saw a guy on medical mysteries that had started speaking in a British accent after some traumatic experience. Fascinating. Luckily, that's all that happened to him. Haha. I wonder if it is a coping mechanism, right?

 

[Future Doc1]

There is also a study at Cambridge Uni. It is pretty cool, I think.

I love accents. I use to want one so bad as a kid. So, I started speaking in an English accent. I liked the change. I ended up doing several kinds: Hick, French, Chinese, Japanese, New York, Georgia, etc. It is so much fun!

Back to the topic, I saw a guy on medical mysteries that had started speaking in a British accent after some traumatic experience. Fascinating. Luckily, that's all that happened to him. Haha. I wonder if it is a coping mechanism, right?

When you say you use to speak in accents like New York, and Georgia--If the language is English in the U.S. then it is a dialect-you were speaking a southern and northern accent, which were dialects of the country-- and to answer your question about if it was a copying mechanism--it could be but it could aslo be a past memory of him hearing a british person talk and mimicked it because his brain had lost memory of his previous speech which means he might have damaged the left side of his parietal lobe and or the two temporal lobes and possibly some other parts as well

 

[FuturaDocta]

When you say you use to speak in accents like New York, and Georgia--If the language is English in the U.S. then it is a dialect-you were speaking a southern and northern accent, which were dialects of the country-- and to answer your question about if it was a copying mechanism--it could be but it could aslo be a past memory of him hearing a british person talk and mimicked it because his brain had lost memory of his previous speech which means he might have damaged the left side of his parietal lobe and or the two temporal lobes and possibly some other parts as well

Oh I see...

I meant dialects, excuse me.