Acoustic analysis of voice and speech characteristics in presymptomatic gene carriers of Huntington's disease: Biomarkers for preclinical sign onset?

Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 49-63

  Kaploun, Lea R ^a   Saxman, John H ^a   Wasserman, Paula ^b   Marder, Karen ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HUNTINGTIN;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAG REPEAT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NOISE; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RATE; VOICE; VOICE ONSET TIME; VOWEL;

EID: 79959215433     PISSN: 10651438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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