Quality of Life

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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 #341723536464 [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 #351423660546 [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 #353323648619 [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 #291623616759 [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 #347523603546 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Not all sounds sound the same: Parkinson's disease affects differently emotion processing in music and in speech prosody.
César F Lima, Carolina Garrett, São Luís Castro
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 2013 Apr; 35(4):373-92
PMID: Object id #334823477505 [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 #345123556535 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Relation between Voice Handicap Index (VHI) and disease severity in Iranian patients with Parkinson's disease.
Fatemeh Majdinasab, Siamak Karkheiran, Negin Moradi, Gholam Ali Shahidi, Masoud Salehi
Med J Islam Repub Iran 2012 Nov; 26(4):157-63
PMID: Object id #340023482344 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

The Ronnie Gardiner Rhythm and Music Method - a feasibility study in Parkinson's disease.
Petra Pohl, Nil Dizdar, Eva Hallert
Disabil Rehabil 2013 Mar;
PMID: Object id #337123480646 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Effect of electroacupuncture on function and quality of life in Parkinson's disease: a case report.
Dhananjay Vijay Arankalle, Pradeep M K Nair
Acupunct Med 2013 Mar;
PMID: Object id #332623470639 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Relative fundamental frequency during vocal onset and offset in older speakers with and without Parkinson's disease.
Cara E Stepp
J Acoust Soc Am 2013 Mar; 133(3):1637-43
PMID: Object id #330423464033 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]