NeuroStutter Syndrome

Common among the urban poor, especially in zones where legal food is unaffordable.

Areas with poor neuroregulatory enforcement, such as collapsed inner sectors or abandoned sectors.

Vendor manipulation: Street-sellers lace loaves with designer drugs to boost addiction or sedate dissent.

Toxic Additives in Black Market Synthroot 9 - Often laced with laced with cheap black-market sedatives or stimulants to create addictive feedback loops or fake freshness.

Primary neurotoxin suspect - A degraded byproduct called Fenquexylin, formed when industrial-grade nootropics react with improper preservatives.

Cumulative exposure is key - most cases arise from months of consumption.

Motor Symptoms: Tremors, muscle spasms, delayed or duplicated movements (phantom gestures).

Speech Symptoms: Stammering, repeated phrases, “glitching” mid-word.

Cognitive: Temporal dyslexia (confusing sequences), déjà vu distortion, audio-visual lag.

Psychological: Paranoia, emotional flattening, panic attacks.

Unique Marker: A signature brainwave irregularity known as “Beta Drift”.

Early-Stage: Neurochemical flush (e.g., Zenvexin IV) + nutritional therapy.

Mid-Stage: Electro-neural realignment therapy (ENRT) + anti-spasmodic agents.

Advanced Cases: No cure; management includes cognitive support and neuroplasticity rehab.

Experimental Treatments: Use of nanofiber scaffolds to rebuild damaged neural pathways (available only to the wealthy or military).

Early detection = high recovery rate (~70%)

Mid-stage: Partial recovery possible, but with lingering sequelae (e.g., speech dysfluency).

Advanced stage: Rarely reversible; most enter lifelong care.

Survivors often suffer from social stigma and employment discrimination due to residual symptoms.

Condition Cycle (Progression Stages):

Infiltration Phase (1–2 weeks)

Asymptomatic or mild: occasional stammering, delayed blinking, minor muscle twitches.

Brain bioelectrical signals start desynchronizing.

Distortion Phase (2–8 weeks)

Auditory or visual echoing (hearing your voice delayed).

Motor latency (you think to move, but your body reacts half a second later).

Emotional outbursts or apathy.

Stutter Cascade Phase (8–16 weeks)

Full-blown NeuroStutter: severe speech fragmentation, tremors, micro-seizures.

Temporal dysphasia: sufferers often "loop" thoughts mid-sentence.

Echo-memory: intrusive flashbacks triggered by mundane stimuli.

Cognitive Degradation Phase (4+ months)

Permanent loss of coordination.

Worsening memory, loss of fine motor control.

Risk of psychosis or a comatose state in extreme cases.

Mild to severe stuttering

Loss of short-term memory precision

Reduced multitasking ability

Occasional neurological "echoes" (e.g., involuntary muscle tics, delayed recall)

NeuroStutter Syndrome (NSS) is not rare in the underclasses—it’s alarmingly common in specific environments, especially where cheap or free Synthroot 9 is a primary food source.

Scientists have studied how the Earth's Fauna may contract and spread NSS through tainted food products, very much in the same way as humans.   As of this writing, no testing has been done on Flora, but scientists speculate that Flora can absorb Fenquexylin due to runoff during the drug's creation, passing NSS on through consumption of the plant.

Regulated Synthroot monitoring

Subsidies for clean nutrition

Public education campaigns warning about "Ghost Loaves" (slang for tainted bread)

Nanotag scanners that detect Fenquexylin presence (illegal but used by savvy underground traders)

Highest prevalence: Among low-income populations in dense urban megastructures, especially sectors with high synthetic food reliance.

Gender-neutral, age-preferential: Ages 15–45 are most at risk due to higher consumption rates of cheap nutrition.

Estimated incidence: 12 per 1,000 people in affected zones.

Rare among affluent sectors due to strict Synthroot quality control.

First emerged 17 years after the fall (Dissension time) in Sector 12 of the Haldrin Arcology, Norway, following a food shortage crisis.

Initially dismissed as “glitch-junkie syndrome”, blamed on recreational stimulants.

Formal classification by the Inter-Habitat Neurological Assembly (IHNA) 20 years after the fall.

Now considered a public health emergency in multiple colonies worldwide.

Stigmatized in most working sectors—seen as a mark of poverty or drug use.

Nicknamed “Glitching” or being “Loopstruck”.

Victims are often ostracized or forced into underground employment.

It’s seen as a tragic byproduct of economic neglect in more enlightened communities, driving advocacy and reforms.