Objective Acoustic Quantification of Phonatory Dysfunction in Huntington's Disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Rusz, Jan ^a,b   Klempíř, Jiří ^b   Baborová, Eva ^b   Tykalová, Tereza ^a   Majerová, Veronika ^b   Čmejla, Roman ^a   Růžička, Evžen ^b   Roth, Jan ^b  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETERIORATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHONIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PHONATION; PITCH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNIFIED HUNTINGTON DISEASE RATING SCALE; VOCAL CORD; VOICE CHANGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONATION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOICE DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878853382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065881     Document Type: Article

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