Communication and Parkinson's: Research papers
- A Preliminary Report on Disordered Speech with Deep Brain Stimulation in Individuals with Parkinson's Disease
Acoustic measures of articulation (corner vowel formants, diphthong slopes, and a spirantization index) and phonation (perturbation, long-term average spectrum) as well as verbal fluency scores showed mixed results with DBS.
01 November 2011
- Deep Brain Stimulation of Caudal Zona Incerta and Subthalamic Nucleus in Patients with Parkinson's: Effects on Voice Intensity
Intensity decay showed no significant changes. The subtle differences found for mean intensity suggest that STN-DBS and cZi-DBS may influence voice intensity differently.
01 November 2011
- Sentence Comprehension and Its Association with Executive Functions in Patients with Parkinson's Disease
In this study, the aim was to provide insights into the interaction between linguistic representation and processing and executive functioning. Therefore, sentence comprehension and executive functions were assessed in 28 Dutch-speaking PD patients and 28 healthy control subjects.
01 November 2011
- The Influence of Dopamine on Automatic and Controlled Semantic Activation in Parkinson's Disease
These results further clarify the impact of PD on semantic processing, demonstrating that dopamine depletion can cause disturbances in both automatic and controlled semantic activation.
01 November 2011
- A Meta-Analysis of Performance on Emotion Recognition Tasks in Parkinson's Disease
A meta-analysis of 34 comparisons, using data from 1,295 individual participants, was conducted to (a) provide a reliable estimate of the magnitude of the purported deficit in emotion recognition and (b) examine the influence of several potential moderators of emotion recognition abilities in PD.
01 March 2010
- How Parkinson's Disease Affects Non-verbal Communication and Language Processing
In addition to difficulties that affect movement, many adults with Parkinson's disease (PD) experience changes that negatively impact on receptive aspects of their communication.
30 July 2008
