A 63-year-old woman presented with fever, confusion, dysarthria (slurred speech), new-onset thrombocytopenia (26 3 10 /L platelets) and mild transaminitis 2 weeks after a tick bite to the left thigh. Physical examination was negative for splenomegaly, rash, or any other focal deficits. A review of the peripheral smear confirmed morulae inside the neutrophils suggestive of a diagnosis of human g...

Vitamin B12 deficiency causes a variety of symptoms in the hematologic, gastrointestinal tract, and neurologic deficit. We report rare case progressive gait disturbance, bradykinesia dysarthria which was that vitamin diagnosed as cause, improved after intramuscular cobalamin treatment. B12, homocysteine, methylmalonic acid tests are recommended for patients with even absence obvious anemia symp...

UNLABELLED A wide range of literature is available on the features of ataxic dysarthria, investigating segmental and prosodic characteristics by acoustic and perceptual means. However, very few studies have been published that look closely at the relationship between the observed phonetic disturbances and their perceptual sequelae, particularly in the area of prosody. The aim of the current stu...

Objective: Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder that is characterized by weak, slow, and imprecise movements. Previous research has shown that behavioral treatment can improve speech characteristics and have a positive impact on the intelligibility of people with dysarthria; however, data about the impact of specific treatment approaches is lacking. The purpose of this study is to examine the ...

PURPOSE The aim of the present report was to explore whether vowel metrics, demonstrated to distinguish dysarthric and healthy speech in a companion article (Lansford & Liss, 2014), are able to predict human perceptual performance. METHOD Vowel metrics derived from vowels embedded in phrases produced by 45 speakers with dysarthria were compared with orthographic transcriptions of these phrase...

Japanese encephalitis (JE) was first recognised after an outbreak in Japan in 1924 that led to 6125 cases. Nearly, all the cases occur in children younger than 10 years, and more than 99% of infections are subclinical. After an incubation period of 4 to 14 days, the earliest symptoms are lethargy, nausea or abdominal pain, headache and fever. During a period of 2–3 days, lethargy increases and ...

Dysarthria is a condition which hampers the ability of an individual to control muscles that play major role in speech delivery. The loss fine over assist movement lips, vocal chords, tongue and diaphragm results abnormal One can assess severity level dysarthria by analyzing intelligibility spoken individual. Continuous assessment helps language pathologists not only study impact medication but...

syringobulbiais very rare condition defined as slit-like fluid cavity in the brain stem. several conditions have been reported to be associated with syringobulbia including neoplasms, spinal cord traumas or lesions such as tethered cord, hind-brain herniation, infections such as meningitis and in isolation.although post-traumatic syringomyelia has been wieldy described previously, traumatic bra...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Limitations in essential daily activities are common among older adults after stroke, but little is known about restrictions in their ability to participate in valued social activities. We sought to broaden our understanding of disability after stroke by characterizing poststroke participation restrictions and investigating the extent to which they are accounted for by di...

The patient was an 83-year-old woman admitted to our hospital for sudden onset of transient dizziness, limitation on articulation of speech and mild gait instability. The only relevant antecedent in this patient was type II diabetes mellitus diagnosed 5 years earlier. This vascular risk factor was optimally controlled with habitual doses of 2 oral antidiabetic drugs. The neurological examinatio...