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A study led by Ravi Bansal, PhD, and Bradley S. Peterson, MD, of The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, has found structural differences in the cerebral cortex of patients

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Characterized by repetition of sounds, syllables, or words; prolongation of sounds; and interruptions in speech, stuttering occurs most often in children between the ages of 2 and 6 as they are