26 Sep 2012
Deep Brain Stimulation and Asenapine in Stuttering Treatment with Dr. Gerald Maguire (367)
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Gerald Maguire, MD, joins Peter Reitzes to discuss his current research and journal articles on deep brain stimulation and Asenapine in stuttering treatment.
Dr. GERALD A. MAGUIRE is a person who stutters, the director of the Kirkup Center for the Medical Treatment of Stuttering at the University of California, Irvine and has researched the medical treatment of stuttering for more than 15 years. Dr. Maguire is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and is author of Without Hesitation: Speaking to the Silence and the Science of Stuttering.
During today’s episode Jerry and Peter discuss these studies:
- Alleviation of developmental stuttering following deep brain stimulation of the ventral intermediate nucleus of the thalamus
- Improvement in developmental stuttering following deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease
- Asenapine for the treatment of stuttering: an analysis of three cases
To contact Dr. Maguire, email: gerald.maguire@uci.edu.
StutterTalk would like to thank Dr. Luc De Nil, a StutterTalk adviser from the University of Toronto, for helping us prepare this interview with Dr. Maguire.
Dr. Maguire’s StutterTalk appearances are archived here. Dr. Maguire discussed Asenapine in 2010 on StutterTalk here. Embedded below is an interesting video on deep brain stimulation from the Mayo Clinic.
3 Oct 2012
“Tell the truth. Be proud of who you are. You are not alone.” (Ep. 368)
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Roger Roe joins Peter Reitzes to discuss his recently published chapter titled Passing Twice: A Proud Community of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) People Who Stutter in the new StutterTalk book: Stuttering: Inspiring Stories and Professional Wisdom.
Roger reads from his chapter and discusses his experiences being a gay person who stutters. Roger is asked about finding Passing Twice: An Informal Network of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons Who Stutter & Their Friends. Roger is asked how religion and faith have influenced his life and about so much more.
ROGER ROE, a person who stutters, plays oboe and English horn with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington. In addition, Roger writes and hosts children’s concerts.