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Watch a person unable to speak for years ‘talk’ using a new brain implant
When it comes to talking, our brain does the heavy lifting. It subconsciously directs the complex coordination of lips, tongue, throat, and jaws we need to pronounce words. And it keeps directing, even in people with paralysis or who are unable to turn these commands into speech. Now, scientists have harnessed this phenomenon to create brain implants that transform this neural activity into text with unprecedented speed and accuracy. In two new studies—both reported today in Nature —the devices enabled two people to “speak” for the first time in more than a decade. The implants produced speech from brain...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 23, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

Complications during Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing in 5,680 Examinations
Conclusions: FEES proved to be easy to perform, well tolerated by the patients and cost-effective. It can be performed at the patient ’s bedside, and it is characterized by a low rate of complications. As a matter of fact, normally only discomfort, gagging and/or vomiting are reported. Complications occurred only rarely, such as anterior or posterior epistaxis episodes or vasovagal crises, but these are still easily managed. Exc eptionally, more severe complications are reported: adverse drug reactions to substances such as blue dye (methylene blue) and local anesthetics (not used in our protocol), and laryngospasm.Folia Phoniatr Logop
Source: Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica - January 17, 2022 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Complications during Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) in 5680 examinations
Conclusions: FEES proved to be easy to perform, well tolerated by the patients and cost-effective. It can be performed at the patient ’s bedside and it is characterized by low rate of complications. As a matter of fact, normally only discomfort, gagging and/or vomit are reported. Only rarely complications occur, such as anterior or posterior epistaxis episodes or vasovagal crises, but these are still easily managed. Exceptionall y, more severe complications are reported: adverse drug reactions to substances such as blue dye (methylene blue) and local anesthetics (not used in our protocol), and laryngospasm.
Source: Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica - January 17, 2022 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Articulatory Correlates of Stress Pattern Disturbances in Talkers With Dysarthria
Conclusions In general, significant stress effects were observed in talkers with dysarthria. However, stress-specific between-group differences in articulatory performance, particularly displacement, may explain the perceptual impression of disturbed stress patterns. Furthermore, similar findings for ALS and MS suggest that articulatory deficits underlying similar stress pattern disturbances are not disease-specific.PMID:33984259 | DOI:10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00299
Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - May 13, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Daniel Kim Mili Kuruvilla-Dugdale Michael de Riesthal Robin Jones Francesca Bagnato Antje Mefferd Source Type: research

Clinical screening of oropharyngeal dysphagia: standard of care
We read with interest the paper by Verin et al. [1] related to oropharyngeal dysphagia and its importance in institutionalised neurological and head and neck patients, between others. Furthermore, this is a very common problem in the critical and intermediate care settings, and a similar situation occurs with other acute neurological diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, cerebral trauma, post-neurosurgical procedures and toxic metabolic encephalopathies [2, 3]. The authors emphasised the necessity of identifying risks factors for aspiration early and suggested that clinical screening methods are needed to r...
Source: European Respiratory Journal - August 31, 2017 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Caviedes, I., Fernandez-Bussy, S., Labarca, G., Herth, F. J. F. Tags: Respiratory clinical practice Original Articles: Correspondence Source Type: research