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A grandmother who went to bed suffering from a migraine was amazed to wake up speaking with a French accent.
Kay Russell, 49, is now left with a voice that is unrecognisable to family and friends.
Doctors say she has Foreign Accent Syndrome, a condition which damages the part of the brain that controls speech and word formation.
Mrs Russell has suffered from migraines for 20 years.
Their effects are normally limited to temporarily paralysing her limbs and causing slurred speech.
But since January 4 this year, she has not spoken with her natural accent.
After one bad migraine, she was left with slurred speech for two weeks and made an appointment to have an MRI scan and see a neurologist.
Then one day she simply woke up with a French accent. Continue reading and comment >>> Daily Mail Reporter | Tuesday, September 14, 2010
