• 100% of patients with POLG-A present with dysarthria and dysphagia • POLG patients without ataxia do not present with speech or swallowing deficits. • Speech is characterized by deficits in timing, voice quality and control. • Swallowing function…
Objectives: The ability to recognize tones is vital for speech perception in tonal languages. Cantonese has six tones, which are differentiated almost exclusively by pitch cues (tones 1 to 6). The differences in pitch contours…
In collaboration with the Movement Disorders and Cognitive monitoring in MS group. Speech is being used as an outcome measure in a treatment trial for Tremor in MS.
Highlights Cannabis users exhibit increased angular velocity of the knee during walking gait. Cannabis users exhibit reduced shoulder flexion during walking gait. Gait changes in cannabis users are not of a magnitude that is clinically…
Comprehensive description of motor speech function in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) One in 8 patients presented with moderate speech timing deficits with a further two-thirds rated as mild or subclinical. Subtle but measurable deficits…