In 1907, he was the first person to describe the speech production disorder of foreign accent syndrome.

Foreign accent syndrome almost always results from brain damage.

There have been a few reported cases of children and siblings picking up the new accent from someone with foreign accent syndrome.

Frazier's case is, to date, the first confirmed association of foreign accent syndrome with a migraine condition.

Special issue on foreign accent syndrome.

But in an extremely small group, the brain injuries produce a shift in pronunciation known as foreign accent syndrome.

Foreign accent syndrome is a very rare medical condition in which patients develop what appears to be a foreign accent.

This case was poorly understood and was never associated with Foreign Accent Syndrome.

Foreign Accent Syndrome was not fully diagnosed.

Speech therapist Frauke Buerk said: "Foreign accent syndrome is extremely rare.

Foreign Accent Syndrome, a rare medical condition whereby a person acquires a different accent when speaking their own language, usually as a result of brain damage.

But foreign accent syndrome does not mean that patients actually speak with foreign accents, according to one of the researchers, Dr. Jennifer Gurd.

Foreign accent syndrome (FAS)

A further case of foreign accent syndrome occurred to Linda Walker, a 60-year-old woman from the Newcastle area of UK.

There is also the rare condition called Foreign Accent Syndrome in which someone who has suffered a brain injury will appear to speak in a new language or dialect.

In 2008 Julie Frazier, a woman from Fort Wayne, Indiana, with severe Sporadic Hemiplegic Migraine developed foreign accent syndrome.

In 2008 Cindy Lou Romberg of Port Angeles, Washington, who had suffered a brain injury 17 years earlier, developed foreign accent syndrome after a neck adjustment from her chiropractor.

"Health Sentinel: Connecting symptoms finally leads to disorder diagnosis" - article from Fort Wayne, IN describing a woman's struggles with rare conditions, including Foreign Accent Syndrome.

The Foreign Accent Syndrome website at the University of Texas at Dallas[1] has sound clips of her speech from before the incident, and after her speech had been affected.

Dankovičová J, Gurd JM, Marshall JC, MacMahon MKC, Stuart-Smith J, Coleman JS, Slater A. Aspects of non-native pronunciation in a case of altered accent following stroke (foreign accent syndrome).