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The dysarthria impact profile: a preliminary French experience with Parkinson's disease.
Alban Letanneux, Margaret Walshe, François Viallet, Serge Pinto
Parkinsons Dis 2013 ; 2013:403680
PMID: Object id #382723766926 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Aerodynamic Assessment of Phonatory Onset in Parkinson's Disease: Evidence of Decreased Scaling of Laryngeal and Respiratory Control.
Michael J Hammer
J Parkinsons Dis 2013 ; 3(2):173-179
PMID: Object id #383723750188 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Low-frequency subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation for axial symptoms in advanced Parkinson's disease.
Christos Sidiropoulos, Richard Walsh, Christopher Meaney, Y Y Poon, Melanie Fallis, Elena Moro
J Neurol 2013 Jun;
PMID: Object id #380123749331 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Swallowing and deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease: A systematic review.
Michelle S Troche, Alexandra E Brandimore, Kelly D Foote, Michael S Okun
Parkinsonism Relat Disord 2013 May;
PMID: Object id #377323726461 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Speech disorders from Parkinson's disease: Try to sing it! A case report.
Giorgio Ferriero, Elisa Bettoni, Daniele Picco, Giuseppe Massazza, Franco Franchignoni
Mov Disord 2013 Apr; 28(5):686-7
PMID: Object id #362123536464 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

The "floating door sign" in Parkinson's disease.
O Kulkarni, K Lafaver, D Tarsy
Parkinsonism Relat Disord 2013 May;
PMID: Object id #374623660546 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Acoustic characteristics of vowel sounds in patients with Parkinson disease.
Young-Im Bang, Kyunghoon Min, Young H Sohn, Sung-Rae Cho
NeuroRehabilitation 2013 Jan; 32(3):649-54
PMID: Object id #372123648619 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

An investigation of semantic similarity judgments about action and non-action verbs in Parkinson's disease: implications for the Embodied Cognition Framework.
David Kemmerer, Luke Miller, Megan K Macpherson, Jessica Huber, Daniel Tranel
Front Hum Neurosci 2013 ; 7:146
PMID: Object id #369823616759 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

A case of Parkinson's disease treated effectively with a pacing board for repetitive speech phenomena after deep brain stimulation].
Junichiro Suzuki, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hirohisa Watanabe, Mizuki Ito, Yasukazu Kajita, Gen Sobue
Rinsho Shinkeigaku 2013 ; 53(4):304-7
PMID: Object id #363923603546 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Regularization in Finite Mixture of Regression Models with Diverging Number of Parameters.
Abbas Khalili, Shili Lin
Biometrics 2013 Apr;
PMID: Object id #364323556535 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]