This may also “potentiate” available interventions, thus favoring more stable outcomes of speech fluency. As a consequence, a direct action on the functionality of “defective” or “impaired” brain circuits may help people who stutter to manage dysfluencies in a better way. In this context, the dysfunctional activity of the cortico-basal-thalamo-cortical networks, as well as the defective patterns of connectivity, seems to play a key role, especially in sensorimotor networks.
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Compatibly, understanding of the neurophysiological bases of DS has dramatically improved, thanks to neuroimaging, and techniques able to interact with neural tissue functioning. In the last few decades, DS has been increasingly considered as a functional disturbance, affecting the correct programming of complex motor sequences such as speech. However, a great variability in intervention outcomes is normally observed, and no definitive evidence is currently available to resolve stuttering, especially in the case of its persistence in adulthood. Interventions for DS are historically based on the behavioral modifications of speech patterns (e.g., through speech therapy), which are useful to regain a better speech fluency.
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Pierpaolo Busan 1 *, Beatrice Moret 1, Fabio Masina 1, Giovanni Del Ben 2 and Gianluca Campana 3