Profiling speech and pausing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Yunusova, Yana ^a,b,c   Graham, Naida L ^a,c   Shellikeri, Sanjana ^a   Phuong, Kent ^a   Kulkarni, Madhura ^b   Rochon, Elizabeth ^a,c   Tang Wai, David F ^d,e   Chow, Tiffany W ^d,f   Black, Sandra E ^a,d,g   Zinman, Lorne H ^a,d   Green, Jordan R ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Canada   (Canada)

^c TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^g SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^h MGH INSTITUTE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BULBAR PARALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAUSE DURATION; PAUSE TIME; PAUSING; PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; READING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH RATE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SPEECH;

AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; PROGNOSIS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84958576876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147573     Document Type: Article

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