An intensive speech therapy that involves loudly repeating words and phrases to 'rev up' the voice is an effective treatment for Parkinson's disease, a trial found. Nearly 90 per cent of Parkinson's ...

As the overall clinical management of PD has improved, we have seen the mortality rate of this population decrease to approximately that of the normal population. To the extent that pharmaceutical ...

The gold standard drug used to treat symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, levodopa, does not appear to have an effect on speech early in the disease course, a new study finds. Distinctive symptoms called ...

Expert Rev Neurother. 2008;8(2):297-309. In summary, perceptual, acoustic and physiological data have documented varying degrees of dysfunction in different aspects of speech in people with PD. The ...

Our lab has a newly published paper! Here is the link to the open access (meaning free) paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/.../fresc.2024.1421730/full The paper is a ...