mrkool078
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A woman sends a text message, and her son thinks it means she's having a stroke.
Has this ever happened to you? A jumbled text message, I mean. And if so, did you start noticing stroke symptoms? Personally, my texts have always been accurate, so I cannot relate to this.
Taken from Yahoo:
http://news.yahoo.com/dystextia-garbled-phone-text-may-sign-stroke-151544091.html
Dystextia: Garbled Phone Text May Be Sign of a Stroke
A woman's garbled text message to her son had an underlying message: She was having a stroke.
Her case, published last month in the journal BMJ Case Reports, is now the fourth reported incident in which garbled texting, similar to slurred speech, was a symptom of a stroke. Doctors are calling this a new phenomenon.
Clumsy thumbs and devious auto-correction aside, the inability to write a coherent text message is called dystextia, and it was first described as medical symptom in 2006, seen in people with migraine headaches. Texting requires the coordination of several brain regions. Thus, dystextia may be a sign of abnormal brain function that otherwise wouldn't be seen in a person speaking or writing longhand, stroke experts say.
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Has this ever happened to you? A jumbled text message, I mean. And if so, did you start noticing stroke symptoms? Personally, my texts have always been accurate, so I cannot relate to this.
Taken from Yahoo:
http://news.yahoo.com/dystextia-garbled-phone-text-may-sign-stroke-151544091.html
Dystextia: Garbled Phone Text May Be Sign of a Stroke
A woman's garbled text message to her son had an underlying message: She was having a stroke.
Her case, published last month in the journal BMJ Case Reports, is now the fourth reported incident in which garbled texting, similar to slurred speech, was a symptom of a stroke. Doctors are calling this a new phenomenon.
Clumsy thumbs and devious auto-correction aside, the inability to write a coherent text message is called dystextia, and it was first described as medical symptom in 2006, seen in people with migraine headaches. Texting requires the coordination of several brain regions. Thus, dystextia may be a sign of abnormal brain function that otherwise wouldn't be seen in a person speaking or writing longhand, stroke experts say.
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