Parkinsonian voice acoustic analysis in real-time after stereotactic thalamotomy

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 83, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 115-121

  Nagulic, Miryana ^a   Davidovic, Jovan ^b   Nagulic, Iliya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Institute of Aviation Medicine   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Parkinson's disease; Thalamotomy; Voice acoustic analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; HUMAN; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RATING SCALE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL PATIENT; THALAMOTOMY; VOICE;

EID: 24644431600     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000087308     Document Type: Article

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