Experiencing a stroke often turns a life upside down, but for Cathy Warren, the shock took a strange and unexpected turn.

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 ...

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, ...

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

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

Cathy says she feels like she's 'lost part of her identity' after being diagnosed with Foreign Accent Syndrome in March 2025.

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

A British woman suffered a stroke on holiday and was stunned to wake up unable to walk, and speaking with a completely different accent.