'Foreign Accent Syndrome' apparently a real thing
(NEWSER) - As if migraine sufferers didn't already have enough to worry about, a woman in Plymouth, England, recently had a headache so powerful that it replaced her British accent with a Chinese one. As ridiculous as it sounds, doctors say she actually has a rare condition known as Foreign Accent Syndrome, which occurs when the part of the brain that controls speech is damaged, reports the Daily Mail , your go-to source for weird stories about medicine and language . More»
