Parkinson’s Disease

Communication Impairments in Parkinson’s Disease


Publishing date
15 Sep 2011
Status
Published
Submission deadline
15 Mar 2011

1School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia

2Division of Speech Pathology & Audiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA

3Centre of Speech and Hearing Disorders, Gent University Hospital, 9000 Gent, Belgium

4Motor Speech Research Laboratory, Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Hong Kong, China


Communication Impairments in Parkinson’s Disease

Description

Since the first description of Parkinson's disease (PD), it has been recognized that the condition is associated with motor speech impairment in the form of hypokinetic dysarthria. More recently it has also been recognized that cognitive/linguistic impairments exist in this population. Although a number of medical treatments, such as Levodopa-based drugs and a variety of surgical techniques including thalamotomy, pallidotomy, and deep brain stimulation, have been applied with varying success in relieving the symptoms of PD in relation to limb function, these same treatments have been documented to have much less success, and in many cases have proven detrimental to speech production in persons with PD. The recent years have also seen the introduction of new approaches in speech-language pathology to the treatment of motor speech impairments in PD. Of particular interest in this special issue are the reports that document the nature of speech-language impairments in PD, the effects of various speech-language pathology rehabilitation programs on communication impairments in PD, and the effects of various medical treatments including both drug and surgical approaches on speech-language function in this condition. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Neurophysiology of Parkinson's disease (PD)
  • Clinical features of speech and language disorders in PD
  • Effect of Levodopa therapy on speech-language function in PD
  • Effects of thalamotomy and pallidotomy on speech-language function in PD
  • Effect of subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation on speech-language function in PD
  • Treatment of speech disorders in PD
  • Rehabilitation of cognitive/linguistic impairments in PD
  • Assessment of motor speech and language disorders in PD

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Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 234657
  • - Editorial

Communication Impairments in Parkinson's Disease

Bruce Murdoch | Tara Whitehill | ... | Harrison Jones
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 157072
  • - Research Article

The Influence of Dopamine on Automatic and Controlled Semantic Activation in Parkinson's Disease

Wendy L. Arnott | David A. Copland | ... | Anthony J. Angwin
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 213983
  • - Research Article

Sentence Comprehension and Its Association with Executive Functions in Patients with Parkinson's Disease

Katrien S. F. Colman | Janneke Koerts | ... | Roelien Bastiaanse
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 658956
  • - Research Article

Deep Brain Stimulation of Caudal Zona Incerta and Subthalamic Nucleus in Patients with Parkinson's Disease: Effects on Voice Intensity

Sofie Lundgren | Thomas Saeys | ... | Jan van Doorn
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 796205
  • - Research Article

A Preliminary Report on Disordered Speech with Deep Brain Stimulation in Individuals with Parkinson's Disease

Christopher Dromey | Suzy Bjarnason
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 605607
  • - Research Article

Deep Brain Stimulation of Caudal Zona Incerta and Subthalamic Nucleus in Patients with Parkinson's Disease: Effects on Diadochokinetic Rate

Fredrik Karlsson | Elin Unger | ... | Jan van Doorn
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 352838
  • - Research Article

Lingual Kinematics in Dysarthric and Nondysarthric Speakers with Parkinson's Disease

Min Ney Wong | Bruce E. Murdoch | Brooke-Mai Whelan
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 435232
  • - Research Article

Acoustic Analysis of PD Speech

Karen Chenausky | Joel MacAuslan | Richard Goldhor
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 129310
  • - Research Article

Assessment of Prosodic Communicative Efficiency in Parkinson's Disease As Judged by Professional Listeners

Heidi Martens | Gwen Van Nuffelen | ... | Marc De Bodt
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 389767
  • - Review Article

Perception of Speech by Individuals with Parkinson's Disease: A Review

Lorinda C. Kwan | Tara L. Whitehill
Parkinson’s Disease
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