The 50-year-old man did not have immediate family from Ireland. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NORTH CAROLINA - A US man developed an “uncontrollable Irish accent” after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, researchers say.
The British Medical Journal said the man from the US state of North Carolina was probably afflicted with foreign accent syndrome .Many details of the man’s identifying characteristics, such as his name and nationality, were not included in the research report. “To our knowledge, this is the first case of FAS described in a patient with prostate cancer and the third described in a patient with malignancy,” said the report’s authors.
They added the man had “no neurological examination abnormalities, psychiatric history, or MRI of the brain abnormalities at symptom onset”.
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