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Objective Automatic Assessment of Rehabilitative Speech Treatment in Parkinson's Disease by Tsanas, Athanasios, Little, Max A., Fox, Cynthia, Ramig, Lorraine O.

“…Vocal performance degradation is a common symptom for the vast majority of Parkinson's disease (PD) subjects, who typically follow personalized one-to-one…”
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Nonlinear speech analysis algorithms mapped to a standard metric achieve clinically useful quantification of average Parkinson's disease symptom severity by Tsanas, Athanasios, Little, Max A., McSharry, Patrick E., Ramig, Lorraine O.

“…The standard reference clinical score quantifying average Parkinson's disease (PD) symptom severity is the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS). At…”
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Remote Assessment of Parkinson's Disease Symptom Severity Using the Simulated Cellular Mobile Telephone Network by Tsanas, Athanasios, Little, Max A., Ramig, Lorraine O.

“…Telemonitoring of Parkinson's Disease (PD) has attracted considerable research interest because of its potential to make a lasting, positive impact on the life…”
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Evidence-based treatment of voice and speech disorders in Parkinson disease by Mahler, Leslie A, Ramig, Lorraine O, Fox, Cynthia

“…Voice and speech impairments are present in nearly 90% of people with Parkinson disease and negatively impact communication and quality of life. This review…”
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Narrative analysis in individuals with Parkinson's disease following intensive voice treatment: secondary outcome variables from a randomized controlled trial by Ramage, Amy E, Greenslade, Kathryn J, Cote, Kaila, Lee, Jessica N, Fox, Cynthia M, Halpern, Angela, Ramig, Lorraine O

“…Communication is often impaired in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD), typically secondary to sensorimotor deficits impacting voice and speech. Language…”
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Neural correlates of efficacy of voice therapy in Parkinson's disease identified by performance-correlation analysis by Narayana, Shalini, Fox, Peter T., Zhang, Wei, Franklin, Crystal, Robin, Donald A., Vogel, Deanie, Ramig, Lorraine O.

“…LSVT® LOUD (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment) is efficacious in the treatment of speech disorders in idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD), particularly…”
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Guidelines for Speech Recording and Acoustic Analyses in Dysarthrias of Movement Disorders by Rusz, Jan, Tykalova, Tereza, Ramig, Lorraine O., Tripoliti, Elina

“…ABSTRACT Most patients with movement disorders have speech impairments resulting from sensorimotor abnormalities that affect phonatory, articulatory, and…”
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Effects of the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT® LOUD) on hypomimia in Parkinson's disease by Dumer, Aleksey I, Oster, Harriet, McCabe, David, Rabin, Laura A, Spielman, Jennifer L, Ramig, Lorraine O, Borod, Joan C

“…Given associations between facial movement and voice, the potential of the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) to alleviate decreased facial expressivity,…”
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Effects of an Extended Version of the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment on Voice and Speech in Parkinson's Disease by Spielman, Jennifer, Ramig, Lorraine O, Mahler, Leslie, Halpern, Angela, Gavin, William J

“…Purpose: The present study examined vocal SPL, voice handicap, and speech characteristics in Parkinson's disease (PD) following an extended version of the Lee…”
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Formant Centralization Ratio: A Proposal for a New Acoustic Measure of Dysarthric Speech by Sapir, Shimon, Ramig, Lorraine O, Spielman, Jennifer L, Fox, Cynthia

“…Purpose: The vowel space area (VSA) has been used as an acoustic metric of dysarthric speech, but with varying degrees of success. In this study, the authors…”
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Novel Speech Signal Processing Algorithms for High-Accuracy Classification of Parkinson's Disease by Tsanas, Athanasios, Little, Max A., McSharry, Patrick E., Spielman, Jennifer, Ramig, Lorraine O.

“…There has been considerable recent research into the connection between Parkinson's disease (PD) and speech impairment. Recently, a wide range of speech signal…”
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Review: Occupational risks for voice problems by Katherine Verdolini, Lorraine O. Ramig

“…The purpose of this paper is to provide a cohesive review of the literature regarding the functional consequences of voice problems and occupational risk…”
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Accurate Telemonitoring of Parkinson's Disease Progression by Noninvasive Speech Tests by Tsanas, Athanasios, Little, Max A., McSharry, Patrick E., Ramig, Lorraine O.

“…Tracking Parkinson's disease (PD) symptom progression often uses the unified Parkinson's disease rating scale (UPDRS) that requires the patient's presence in…”
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Reply to: “Fostering Voice Objective Analysis in Patients With Movement Disorders” by Rusz, Jan, Tykalova, Tereza, Ramig, Lorraine O., Tripoliti, Elina

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Speech treatment for Parkinson's disease by Ramig, Lorraine O, Fox, Cynthia, Sapir, Shimon

“…Researchers estimate that 89% of people with Parkinson's disease (PD) have speech and voice disorders including disorders of laryngeal, respiratory and…”
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Suitability of Dysphonia Measurements for Telemonitoring of Parkinson's Disease by Little $^\ast$, Max A., McSharry, Patrick E., Hunter, Eric J., Spielman, Jennifer, Ramig, Lorraine O.

“…In this paper, we present an assessment of the practical value of existing traditional and nonstandard measures for discriminating healthy people from people…”
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Immediate and long‐term effects of speech treatment targets and intensive dosage on Parkinson's disease dysphonia and the speech motor network: Randomized controlled trial by Narayana, Shalini, Franklin, Crystal, Peterson, Elizabeth, Hunter, Eric J., Robin, Donald A., Halpern, Angela, Spielman, Jennifer, Fox, Peter T., Ramig, Lorraine O.

“…This study compared acoustic and neural changes accompanying two treatments matched for intensive dosage but having two different treatment targets (voice or…”
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Patterns of Laryngeal Electromyography and the Activity of the Respiratory System During Spontaneous Laughter by Luschei, Erich S, Ramig, Lorraine O, Finnegan, Eileen M, Baker, Kristen K, Smith, Marshall E

“…1 Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; 2 Department of Speech, Language, Hearing Science, University of Colorado,…”
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Effects of Intensive Voice Treatment (the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment [LSVT]) on Vowel Articulation in Dysarthric Individuals with Idiopathic Parkinson Disease: Acoustic and Perceptual Findings by Sapir, Shimon, Spielman, Jennifer L, Ramig, Lorraine O, Story, Brad H, Fox, Cynthia

“…Purpose: To evaluate the effects of intensive voice treatment targeting vocal loudness (the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment [LSVT]) on vowel articulation in…”
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Intensive voice treatment in Parkinson's disease: Lee Silverman Voice Treatment by Sapir, Shimon, Ramig, Lorraine O, Fox, Cynthia M

“…Advances in neuroscience have led to an expanded and improved understanding of neurobiological changes associated with rehabilitation and exercise in…”
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