Science AMA Series: We are Terra Barnes and Tim Holy from Washington University School of Medicine. Along with our colleagues, we recently published a paper showing that mouse pups with a human mutation associated with stuttering show abnormalities similar to human stuttering. AMA!

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Since stuttering affects 70 million people worldwide, we thought you might be interested in our new paper showing that the same mutation that is linked to human stuttering (Kang et al, 2010) has now been shown to cause abnormalities in mouse vocalizations. This suggests that the underlying brain circuitry that helps to make vocalization possible in mice may also play a role in human speech. With a well characterized animal model of stuttering, we can start to try to understand the underlying mechanism!

Here are some links to the paper and to the press coverage:

A Mutation Associated with Stuttering Alters Mouse Pup Ultrasonic Vocalizations, Current Biology (2016), http://ift.tt/1VrU2Gp

http://ift.tt/1VnOKeV

http://ift.tt/1Qe2l0z

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">Science AMA Series: We are Terra Barnes and Tim Holy from Washington University School of Medicine. Along with our colleagues, we recently published a paper showing that mouse pups with a human mutation associated with stuttering show abnormalities similar to human stuttering. AMA!