TIL about foreign accent syndrome. This is a very rare (~100 cases worldwide) but real medical condition where people abruptly begin speaking in a foreign accent following head trauma like a bad migraine, accident, or stroke. healthline.com Submitted by veety t3_10n49hk on January 28, 2023 at 2:56 AM in todayilearned 188 comments 1,609
Longjumping_Yak5171 t1_j672gfl wrote on January 28, 2023 at 4:19 AM I wonder if when the brain fails to find the "primary" path it just defaults to a known working backup. Permalink 3
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