Professors at Arizona Stat University have been closely following the case of a women, Michelle Myers, who woke up one morning in 2015 with a thick British accent. Myers had gone to bed with a severe migraine and has been speaking with the accent since. Foreign Accent Syndrome is a rare disorder, but not without precedence. There have been 100 documented cases of the disorder since 1907. Read the interview with the professors here. This blog post was created by Planetrehab. T

A bandage-like sensor applied to the throat of a recovering stroke victim measures important rehabilitation data. For example, the band aid-like, stretchy sensor measures things like the patient's ability to swallow, speech patterns and aphasia. “Stretchable electronics allow us to see what is going on inside patients’ bodies at a level traditional wearables simply cannot achieve,” says John A. Rogers, engineering professor at Northwestern University. “The key is to make them

Two to three in every 1,000 children are born with a hearing loss that is likely to impact development. Research of the auditory system at its early developmental stages, and efforts to identify hearing loss and initiate appropriate rehabilitation strategies, can be crucial to the healthy development of a child. Laurie Eisenberg, Ph.D., is a House Ear Institute investigator on two multicenter projects involved in understanding the effects of hearing loss on young children as