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- Karlsson, Fredrik, Docent, 1975-, et al.
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How Well Does Diadochokinetic Task Performance Predict Articulatory Imprecision? : Differentiating Individuals with Parkinson's Disease from Control Subjects
- 2019
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Ingår i: Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica. - : S. Karger. - 1021-7762 .- 1421-9972. ; 71:5-6, s. 251-260
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether syllables produced in an oral diadochokinetic (DDK) task may be quantified so that persons with Parkinson's disease (PD) perceived to have reduced articulatory precision when reading may be correctly identified using that quantification.PATIENTS AND METHODS: Syllable sequences from 38 speakers with PD and 38 gender- and age-matched control speakers (normal controls [NC]) were quantified acoustically and evaluated in terms of (1) the speakers' ability to accurately predict speaker group membership (PD or NC) and (2) their ability to predict reduced/non-reduced articulatory precision.RESULTS: A balanced accuracy of 80-93% in predicting speaker group membership was achieved. The best measures were related to the proportion of a syllable made up of a vowel, amplitude slope and syllable-to-syllable variation in duration and amplitude. The best material was that based on /ka/. Reduced articulatory precision was accurately predicted from DDK measures in 89% of the samples. Release-transient prominence and voicing during the onset of plosives were particularly strong predictors.CONCLUSIONS: DDK sequences can predict articulatory imprecision as observed in another speech task. The linking of performance across speech tasks probably requires measures of stability in syllable durations and amplitudes, as well as measures of subsyllabic acoustic features.
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- Sandström, Linda, et al.
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Long-term effects of unilateral deep brain stimulation on voice tremor in patients with essential tremor
- 2019
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Ingår i: Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. - : Elsevier. - 1353-8020 .- 1873-5126. ; 60, s. 70-75
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- INTRODUCTION: Voice tremor (VT) is a common symptom of Essential tremor (ET). Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an established treatment for ET overall, however, its effect on VT is less clear. The aim of this study was to evaluate long-term effects of DBS on VT and to investigate how VT symptoms develop over time in patients with ET.METHODS: VT scores for the cohort of 81 ET patients that had undergone DBS surgery in the caudal zona incerta (cZi) were analyzed retrospectively. Thirty-four patients had preoperative VT and long-term evaluations were available for 19 patients. Longitudinal effects of cZi-DBS were investigated 1, 3 and 5 years postoperatively. VT progression was evaluated based on preoperative-, and off stimulation postoperative assessments.RESULTS: Unilateral cZi-DBS reduced average voice tremor by 58% at the 3-year follow-up and by 67% 5 years after surgery. Four patterns of VT development were identified among patients, and the effectiveness of cZi-DBS in alleviating voice tremor symptoms showed differing patterns for these subgroups.CONCLUSIONS: This retrospective analysis of a small cohort of patients suggests that cZi-DBS may reduce VT in the long-term for patients with ET overall, but the pattern of VT progression likely influences the effectiveness of the treatment. These results also suggest that unilateral cZi-DBS may be more efficacious when treating patients with mild to moderate VT. A prospective, blinded, controlled clinical trial in patients with ET is needed to determine developmental patterns of VT, and the safety and efficacy of cZi-DBS for the treatment of VT.
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