英國女子偏頭痛 發病後開口會講中文？

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1267208/Sarah-Colwills-Chinese-accent-brought-migraine-attack.html

Migraine attack gives English woman a Chinese accent
By Luke Salkeld
Last updated at 11:59 AM on 20th April 2010


As anyone who suffers migraines knows, the pain can leave you speechless.
But Sarah Colwill has experienced a much more unusual vocal effect - she now speaks with a Chinese accent.
The disturbing impact of a chronic migraine has left her voice unrecognisable to family and friends.
Doctors say she has Foreign Accent Syndrome, a condition which damages the part of the brain that controls speech and word formation.

It is so rare, there are only 60 recorded cases in the world.
Mrs Colwill, 35, is baffled by the effects and fears she may never regain her normal pronunciation and tone of voice.
She said the change happened after she had such an extreme headache last month that she called for an ambulance.

Paramedics said her voice sounded strange and when she arrived at hospital she realised she was speaking like a Chinese woman.
The IT project manager, who was born in Germany but has lived in Plymouth since she was a child, is having speech therapy to try to revert to her Devon accent.
Mrs Colwill said she had no idea why she had picked up the Far Eastern speech pattern. \'I have never been to China. I just want my own voice back but I don\'t know if I ever will. I moved to Plymouth when I was 18 months old so I\'ve always spoken like a local.
\'But following one attack an ambulance crew said I sounded Chinese. I spoke to my step-daughter on the phone from hospital and she didn\'t recognise who I was. She said I sounded Chinese.
\'Since then I have had my friends hanging up on me because they think I\'m a hoax caller.

\'I speak in a much higher tone now, my voice is all squeaky. To think I am stuck with this accent is getting me down.\'


Mrs Colwill has suffered severe headaches for a decade but this year was diagnosed as having rare sporadic hemiplegic migraines.
The condition causes blood vessels in the brain to expand, resulting in stroke-like symptoms such as paralysis on one side of the body.
The effects normally last for around seven days but Mrs Colwill had several migraine attacks at once, culminating with an excruciating attack on March 20 which caused the brain damage.
She has been contacted by Professor John Coleman, a phonetics expert at Oxford University.
He said Foreign Accent Syndrome is thought to be caused by strokes and brain injuries but the condition is so rare there is limited research into why it happens


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英國女子偏頭痛 發病後開口會講中文？(圖) 中評社


莎拉？科爾威爾（Sarah Colwill）
　　中評社香港4月20日電／英國有一名女子長期偏頭痛，最近一次發病後，她得了“外國口音綜合症”，一開口講話就有中文口音。

　　今日新聞引述英媒報道，偏頭痛是一種很折磨人的病症，患者每次病發時都苦不堪言。英國有一名女性患者，最近偏頭痛後出現一種奇特現象，就是從來都沒學過中文的她，竟然講話變得有中文口音！根據醫生診斷，她是罹患了罕見的“外國口音綜合症”，而這種病確定是偏頭痛所造成的。

　　今年35歲的莎拉&#·科爾威爾（Sarah Colwill）是長期的偏頭痛患者，最近一次發作時，她整個痛不欲生，丈夫就趕緊叫救護車將她送醫。醫生替她檢查時，發現她腦內的血管不斷膨脹，出現類似中風的跡象，其中一邊身體還呈現癱瘓。

　　根據醫生表示，科爾威爾最近一次發作後，腦部出現了變化，影響她的說話模式，使她講話有中文口音，這是典型的“外國口音綜合症”（Foreign Accent Syndrome）連她的家人和最熟悉她的朋友，都無法認出她的聲音。

　　醫生說明，在一般情況下，偏頭痛病人可能會痛到無法說話，但科爾威爾仍然可以說話，而且聲調變得尖又平，即使她是在說英文，但其他人聽起來卻感覺她在講中文。她的個案已經吸引世界各地的醫生和專家興趣，他們都想對這個病例進行研究。