Unlocking a Medical Mystery: Stuttering

"People Have Looked for a cause of stuttering for 5.000 years," said Dennis Drayna, a researcher at the National Institute has Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, and a co-author of the study. "Many, many things have been suggested as a cause of stuttering. None of them have turned out to be true. For the first time today, we know one of the causes of this disorder."

"These mutations Affect a process inside cells that degrades the things that cells do not need anymore," Drayna said. "This process is called the garbage can, or more like the recycling bin, of the cell." When this process gets interrupted, the cell goes Haywire, and that causes problems. "

These problems, according to the study, may explain why some people stutter.

Stuttering, also referred to as stammering, is a disruption in the normal flow of speaking. For people with the disorder, speech comes out in fits and starts, certain syllables may be prolonged or repeated, and for some, stuttering is Accompanied by involuntary facial tics.Read More Story,http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/10/stuttering.genes.cell/?hpt=Mid

Unlocking a Medical Mystery: Stuttering