Is stuttering an umbrella pathology?
b'Episode #185: Looks like stuttering is a lot more complex than we think! And that\\xa0makes researching the cause, treatment, and cure an astronomical\\xa0challenge. On this episode, I chat with my friend, Dr. Greg Snyder,\\xa0who is a professor and stuttering researcher at Ole Miss, about the\\xa0complexity of stuttering and stuttering research. What if scientists\\xa0looked at stuttering as an umbrella pathology instead of a singular\\xa0one? Could this approach be the key to finally unraveling the\\xa0mysteries of our speech?
\\nThere’s documented evidence that stuttering is a genetic pathology (at\\xa0least for around 5% of folks with persistent developmental stuttering).\\xa0Greg ponders that there could be many different genetic mutations that\\xa0ultimately result in different stuttering behaviours; and the genetic\\xa0heterogeneity of stuttering makes it difficult to research and treat.\\xa0Science may be better off looking for many different needles in a\\xa0haystack instead of just one.
\\nGreg and I also chat about unfortunate biases in research, how darn\\xa0difficult it is to conduct control groups in stuttering research, and\\xa0why the heck we call coffee shop employees “baristas”.
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\\n* Klara G Roman
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\\nMusic used in this episode:
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\\n* Perpetual Motion (instrumental) by destinazione_altrove
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\\nPhoto credit (except for the image of Franky Banky):
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\\n* BrokenCities
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