Impact of pallidotomy on physiological articulation function and speech intelligibility in Parkinson disease.

From: Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of posteroventral pallidotomy on perceptual and physiological measures of articulatory function and speech intelligibility in Parkinson disease (PD). The study examined 11 participants with PD who under-went posteroventral pallidotomy. Physiological measures of lip and tongue function and perceptual measures of speech intelligibility were obtained prepallidotomy and 3 months postpallidotomy. The participants with PD were also assessed on the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS; Part III). In addition, the study ...

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