## Abstract Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) tend to speak monotonously with minor modulation of pitch and intensity. The goal of this study was to find out whether these speech changes can be explained mainly by motor impairment, i.e. akinesia and rigidity of the articulatory apparatus, or w
Speech therapy in Parkinson's disease
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 60 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-3185
- DOI
- 10.1002/mds.5578
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