Unusual. a Rare Syndrome: After a Stroke, She Wakes up with a Russian Accent

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A Canadian woman, Tara Livingston, sees her life being upset because of a rather unknown evil: the foreign accent syndrome. After having been a victim of a stroke and having been operated on in an emergency, she started to...

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A woman woke up with a Russian accent and says strangers think she's faking it. Tara Livingston from Canada went to sleep and woke up sounding like she was from Russia. The 56-year-old suffered a stroke that left her with aphasia and apraxia of speech - conditions that affect language and the ability to form words. She began intensive speech therapy and slowly began learning how to speak again. But after undergoing minor surgery near her eye, sh…

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A victim of a stroke in November 2023, a 56-year-old Canadian woman has been suffering since she woke up and started speaking with an involuntary Russian accent. A very rare disorder.