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Filter by:Adductory spasmodic dysphonia (AdSD) is a rare condition characterised by irregular and uncontrolled voice interruptions, most commonly affecting women around the age of 45. The diagnosis is clinical and usually requires evaluation by several specialists. The exact cause is not known, but a disturbance of the motor system is hypothesised, probably related to various causes such as loss of cortical inhibition or problems with sensory input. Neuroimaging studies have shown hyperactivity in various brain regions during speech production in patients with AdSD, but it is still unclear whether this hyperactivity is due to a malfunction of auditory and somatosensory feedback or an impairment of motor programming. Recent research indicates that patients with AdSD show excessive muscle activation during phonation, probably due to abnormal processing of auditory feedback. This suggests that intervention in the auditory system may offer new treatment opportunities. The proposed study aims to describe the acoustic, auditory-perceptual and subjective voice and speech changes in AdSD subjects during the Quick-Lombard Test (LT), a test that assesses vocal response under noisy conditions.
This research study is investigating whether people with Alzheimer's disease experience more changes to voice and swallowing than their healthy age-matched peers. The prevalence of swallowing impairments in moderate-severe Alzheimer's Disease is high (85-93%) and voice is also often negatively impacted by Alzheimer's disease. The overall objective of this study is to evaluate the voice and swallowing function of adults with and without Alzheimer's disease. The investigators will also be involving the primary caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's that are enrolled in the study to better understand the impact of voice and swallowing impairments on the primary caregivers of those with Alzheimer's Disease. Healthy adults and individuals with Alzheimer's disease will: - undergo tests of cough, voice, and swallow function - undergo tests of grip and tongue strength - complete questionnaires Caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's disease will also complete questionnaires.
The goal of this study is to evaluate if using evidence-based, standard ingredient and target codes from the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System - Voice Therapy (RTSS-Voice) in standard of care voice therapy documentation can improve outcomes for patients with muscle tension dysphonia (MTD). The main question it aims to answer is: Since the RTSS-Voice will help clinicians think about their treatment more specifically and in relation to nine evidence-based therapies, will its adoption be associated with improved outcomes? Clinicians across five voice centers will be asked to use the RTSS-Voice to document their voice therapy sessions for patients with MTD. Researchers will compare changes in outcomes between two groups of patients: those treated during the clinician's first year using the RTSS-Voice versus those treated during the clinician's second year using the RTSS-Voice.
A previous study completed in 2022 (NCT05158179) was conducted using cohorts of healthy controls, and adults with general laryngopharyngeal disorders. This study will expand on the previous research to include a separate cohort of adults being seen in clinic for an existing laryngopharyngeal disorder resulting from previous radiation or other cancer treatments.
Vocal hyperfunction (VH) is the most commonly treated class of voice disorders by speech-language pathologists and voice therapy is the primary curative treatment. Patients and clinicians report that generalizing improved voicing into daily life is the most significant barrier to successful therapy. We will test if extending biofeedback into the patient's daily life using ambulatory voice monitoring will significantly improve generalization during therapy and if individual patient factors, like how easily they can modify their voice and engagement during therapy, moderate the effects of the biofeedback.
The investigators will conduct a pilot experiment for a novel and personalized method for voice restoration using machine learning applied to surface EMG (sEMG) signal from articulatory muscles of the face and the neck allowing recognition of silent speech. The investigators predict that the use novel personalized method for voice restoration will be feasible and successful for patients.
The general aim of the research is to provide scientific evidence that vibro-tactile stimulation (VTS) represents a non-invasive form of neuromodulation that can induce measurable improvements in the speech of patients with laryngeal dystonia (LD) - also called spasmodic dysphonia (SD).
Spasmodic Dysphonia (SD) is a focal, action-specific movement disorder with prominent effects on speech (1, 2). Patients with SD lose their ability to speak normally due to involuntary contractions of their laryngeal muscles. As a result, SD tremendously affects an individual's quality of life by limiting their ability to communicate effectively. The current standard of care for SD involves botulinum toxin (BTX) injections into the laryngeal muscles. BTX causes a weakness in the injected muscles thereby lessening the spasms (3). The primary neurological problem is not changed but weakening the muscles temporarily diminishes the symptoms. However, BTX therapy is associated with several limitations (3, 4). First, the clinical effect produced by BTX is temporary and repeated injections are required approximately every 3 months. Second, there is a delay in the onset of benefits provided by BTX injections; this delay results in a sinusoidal symptom curve where SD is optimally controlled for only a portion of each treatment cycle and patients' spasms return prior to the next injection cycle. Furthermore, the injections can be very painful and some patients develop antibodies to BTX (3, 4). Oral medications used in dystonia, such as anticholinergics, benzodiazepines, and baclofen, provide minimal relief and have numerous side effects at the doses required to influence a patient's voice. Thus, on basis of these limitations, we set out to explore new and innovative strategies to treat SD and provide patients with long-term benefit. Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is a neurosurgical procedure that involves the implantation of electrodes to deliver electrical stimuli to specific brain regions. It is the gold-standard surgical treatment for other movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease and generalized dystonia. During a DBS procedure, an electrode is inserted very precisely into the brain and is linked to a pacemaker implanted under the skin of the chest or abdominal wall. When the pacemaker is switched on, a very small electric current passes into the brain, blocking the damaging signals that cause the condition.
Evaluate if adding expiratory muscle strength training to traditional voice therapy for individuals with dysphonia due to glottal insufficiency improves maximal expiratory pressure, acoustic and aerodynamic measures (i.e. amplitude, maximum phonation time, peak expiratory flow), and voice related quality of life.
The aim of this study is to assess the Correlation between The Arabic Pediatric Voice Related Quality of Life (PV-RQOL), The Auditory Perceptual Assessment and Acoustic Analysis of voice of dysphonic children. This is important to provide an efficient therapeutic strategy for these children.