The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. This study suggests and integrates new methods of spectral brain mapping and speech ...

October marked alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) awareness month. AAC includes all means of communication that a person may use besides talking. Low-tech methods include means of ...

Parkinson's disease is most well-known and well-studied for its motor impairments—tremors, stiffness and slowness of movement. But less visible symptoms such as trouble with memory, attention and ...

Difficulty distinguishing spoken words from background noise, called speech-in-noise hearing impairment, was associated with increased risk for Parkinson's disease (PD), with a 57% elevation in risk ...

Many Australians living with neurological disorders, such as motor neuron disease and multiple sclerosis, experience speech difficulties and may lose their ability to speak. There are limited ...

Speech therapy is a treatment for speech, language, and voice disorders. During speech therapy, you or your child works with a speech-language pathologist (SLP), who teaches you how to speak more ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The researchers sought to evaluate how speech biomarkers may detect MS. Patients with MS performed poorer in ...

Studying the association between vocal features and cognitive domains could serve as a valuable tool for assessing cognitive function. Acoustic features of speech may serve as a biomarker for ...