tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post1487564697069939447..comments2024-03-24T15:07:18.773+01:00Comments on The Stuttering Brain: Why stuttering at low stress/load levelsTom Weidighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084153394215001999noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post-22436978059418519962010-09-17T22:59:26.455+02:002010-09-17T22:59:26.455+02:00So is there a structural change in the Rolandic Op...So is there a structural change in the Rolandic Operculum (white matter connections) or a change in neurotransmitter levels? For example, is it the bridge or the goods that pass through it that is changed? This "occurrence" must happen due to some environmental factor (turning on the genes). <br /><br />Do you think this occurrence has a higher probability of happening in a younger child as the brain is more malleable then? If so why does it happen to teenagers and even adults? Isn't the brain placticity very low by then? I know of a person who started stuttering at 18 when entering college.ig88sirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14118519918762348922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post-32460209340263601112010-07-14T21:50:17.323+02:002010-07-14T21:50:17.323+02:00One possible explanation:
Once the stuttering beg...One possible explanation:<br /><br />Once the stuttering begins, it's not really possible to go back to the low-stress situations as they were before. The experience of stuttering, with all the accompanying anxiety, changes our expectations, so that situations that were previously low-stress now play out with the memory of the experience of stuttering, and these situations are now inevitably "infected" with the fear of stuttering that wasn't there previously. <br /><br />So a situation that was previously a low-stress situation is no longer a low-stress situation, because of the additional stress and anxiety that the stuttering has brought.<br /><br />This is probably also one of the reasons why stutterers have bad periods. During periods of less stuttering, we don't expect to stutter as much, and that lessens the anxiety. But during periods of more stuttering, situations that were previously easy become harder. Expectations affect performance.Orahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07560420178241698669noreply@blogger.com