1. the time by which something must be finished, submitted, etc. 2. (formerly) a boundary around a military prison beyond which a prisoner could not venture without risk of being shot by the guards.
While it's important to talk with your doctor about the cause of your slurred speech, slurred speech caused by anxiety is not dangerous. It's not a sign that you have something else coming, or that your brain will somehow be inefficient for handling life tasks in the future.
The disturbances in these speech processing areas in the brain may be a cause of stuttering. CHLA researchers know blood flow is typically coupled with neural activity, which compelled them to zero in on a specific brain region â the Broca's area â in the recent study published in Human Brain Mapping.