I knew what I wanted to say but I didn't have the words to say it. According to Charles, Branson told doctors she's had migraines since a child, but never suffered an episode like this before.
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I was terrified. I was scared, I was confused. I had a headache, my vision was very blurry. Something is terribly wrong. Right after that, my cheek went numb, my hand went numb, my right hand went numb and I started to cry.
I've added an audio version to the post above. I just noticed, in Ms. I think that this phenomenon offers clues to how the brain functions to produce speech. Namely, in trying to call up a word, we focus on certain key phonemes within it. Certainly this is how I search for a word that is "on the tip of my tongue. It begins with a 't,' or it begins with a 'd'. If we are not rushed and performing in front of an audience, this method often works.
But if you're live on radio or TV, you don't have time to dredge up the words that you only partially recall. In such cases, skillful and highly experienced media personalities will make a joke about themselves or figure out other clever ways to stall while trying to dredge up the lost word, or simply go around the blocked word and come up with a synonym or circumlocution that gets the idea across some other way.
Once a person's "motor mouth" starts producing gibberish composed only of parts of words that they wanted to say, then it's likely that they will end up with a cascade of nonsense vocables. Branson's episode somewhat resembles whatever its true etiology ; for a survey as of , see Sheila Blumstein, " Impairments of Speech Production and Speech Perception in Aphasia ", Phil. An example of a recent publication in this general area is Cristina Romani et al.
I have the impression that she recognized the problem very quickly. Her demeanor changed coincident with "let's go," which is the typical way to begin "passing the camera" to someone else. If you consider the vowels and syllables, I wonder if "teret taysan" is what came out as she was trying to sign off with her name, "Serene Branson.
This is Serene Branson. I feel it's important to know how she is doing now. CBS says she feels fine and is perfectly OK. And the culprit everyone imputes is a stroke. TIAs are significant warning signs, yet regardless of cause, this seems not to be an innocuous case of stage fright. If this happened to me, what should I do next, medically? The fact that Ms.
Burton has apparently not done this is widely viewed as puzzling. I hope that this is because she's already aware of a relatively benign cause, such as a history of minor seizures with no worrying underlying pathology.
Several years before he died, my father a vascular surgeon suffered a TIA. In his case, the major symptom was complete loss of vision. The first thing he did was take some aspirin to thin the blood. Then off to the hospital his wife drove. His vision was back in an hour, and he recovered completely. His death from cancer was unrelated. There was no way of knowing if or how much the aspirin helped, but everyone agreed it was a good idea.
February 16, pm. The juxtaposition of this post and the one just before it shows that even with gibberish, context is important.
If the clip of Branson had been described as coming from SNL, we'd be laughing at it. I think that Spell Me Jeff in his first comment is spot on. Branson was conscious of what was happening to her and she was trying to salvage her hand-off. The "let's go" is short for "let's go to… another reporter somewhere else ," and "hit teret taysan" may be a deformation of "this is Serene Branson.
If you're just listening to the intonation and not paying attention to the individual "words," it sounds almost normal, not garbled at all. To me, it's heroic that — considering the circumstances — she could do that with such seeming aplomb, especially since again, as Spell Me Jeff pointed out , by the time she said "let's go," she was clearly aware that something was seriously amiss with her speech production. An impressive recovery and closing.
From Jerry Packard University of Illinois , a specialist on aphasia: "A textbook example of fluent aphasic speech output. Someone experiencing such a moment on the air for the first time could certainly be excused for totally freaking out. Experience and natural poise might have helped. But foreknowledge of the condition is also a reasonable explanation.
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