Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is an uncommon motor speech disorder characterised by the emergence of an accent perceived as non-native, often following neurological insults such as stroke. Unlike ...

A woman says her life 'changed forever' when she suffered a stroke on a girls' trip abroad - and woke up with a Thai accent.

Imagine waking up one ordinary morning, feeling perfectly normal, only to discover that the very sound of your voice has been utterly transformed. It’s a scenario so surreal, so profoundly ...

Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is a rare and fascinating speech disorder in which individuals suddenly begin speaking with an accent that sounds foreign to their native dialect. First reported in 1907, ...

It’s time for a break from COVID columns. A new case of a rare syndrome called foreign accent syndrome (FAS) was recently reported in various news services. It was experienced by a 28-year-old ...

What sounds like a bizarre dream was a frightening reality for one confused Brit. An English mom-of-two named Zoe Coles, 36, said one morning she woke up with a Welsh accent despite never visiting the ...

It sounds like something from a medical TV drama like “Grey’s Anatomy,” but last week a story began trending about a teenage native English speaker who woke up from a coma with a new ability to speak ...

A mom woke up speaking like a member of ABBA. Georgina Gailey, 60, noticed her Swedish twang while chatting to her sister on FaceTime. Hospital medics suspected a stroke, but two weeks later she was ...

Cathy woke up in hospital with the left side of her body paralysed and bizarrely, with a Thai accent instead of a Hampshire ...

Cathy Warren has shared how she woke up to find her southern English accent having disappeared and instead was replaced with ...