Acquired transient stuttering during a migraine attack

Stuttering is an abnormality in the fluency of speech, which is characteriz ed by interruption of the normal rhythm due to involuntary repetition and p rolongation, or arrest, of uttered letters or syllables. The aphasic syndrome and dysarthria can be associated with classic migraine , but, to our knowledge, no study has so far described stuttering as the on ly neurological symptom accompanying an attack.