Metabolic studies of stutterers∗

Modern Theories on Stuttering

“…migraine, asthma, uticaries, eczemas in stuttering children. Kopp [24] found sugar, proteins, calcium and phosphates increased. Overloading of the saliva has been described by Starr [47] but Weaver [53] saw no differences in the pH content.…”

An Interbehavioral Analysis of Several Aspects of Stuttering

“…In others causal significance has been ascribed to one factor of the situation with the partial or complete ignoring of other factors which influence behavior (27). The explanation of the scient ist, although not as naive as that of the layman , often becomes an exposition of direct, single factor relationships in terms of metabolic disturbances (30), the blocking of the alpha rhythm (33), "the 'ten dency of 'mental' processes to persist in acti vit y after cessation of the condition to which they were originally due" (14), or similar constructions, instead of explanation in te rms of a particular individual, with a particular background, behaving "in a particular situation.…”