Strange syndrome makes you unable to speak your mother tongue after just one night

A woman in Arizona woke up one night and suddenly realized she had changed completely to an English accent. The strange thing is, she lived her whole life only in America.

This woman is called Michelle Myers. In 2015, after a night of headaches, she woke up and possessed a tone like a true British. And this English intonation still follows her for 2 years.

Ms. Myers recalled that she had previously had her voice changed to Irish and Australian accents, but those times only lasted about a week.

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This is a syndrome that causes the patient to suddenly change his voice into a completely different country voice.

She was diagnosed with foreign accent syndrome (FAS), a syndrome that caused the patient to suddenly change her voice into a completely different country voice.

This condition is caused by two main causes: stroke and brain damage.

In addition, she was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. This syndrome affects connective tissue in the body, leading to loose joints, stretching pores, easy bruising, and especially increasing the risk of blood vessel rupture.

Foreign speech syndrome is an extremely rare syndrome. Over the past century, the world literature has only recorded about 60 cases of the disease.

In 2010, there was a woman living in Virgina who suddenly had a Russian accent after a head injury due to falling stairs. Another woman living in Ontario, Canada has changed her voice to a Maritime Atlantic accent, after a stroke.

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Stroke and brain injury are the main cause of this syndrome.

Scientists are continuing to study this bizarre and rare syndrome, in order to find out why you can completely change your intonation after a certain event.

Most likely, the answer to this syndrome will help scientists better understand the structure and function of the brain, especially the command center of the language, which has a lot of mysteries. have an answer.