Stroke news tips for Friday, Feb. 6, 2004
...ptoms included headache, vision problems, impaired speech and numbness. Pre-eclampsia-like symptoms occurred in six of the 19 problem pregnancies. "Pregnancy increases the risk of transient ischemic symptoms and pre-eclampsia in CADASIL in all age groups, but especially in older (over 30) females," the re...UF research adds to evidence that unborn children hear 'melody' of speech
...nts and are more sensitive to the melodic parts of speech than to pitch, said Ken Gerhardt, a UF professor of communication sciences and disorders and an associate dean of the Graduate School. As for music, "they're not going to hear the violins, but they will hear the drums," said Gerhardt, who led the re...New method of distinguishing Alzheimer's from Lewy body dementia
...g and waning of cognition, inattention, incoherent speech and varying ability to perform tasks. When this occurs, family members often describe their loved ones as "zoned out," or "not with us." This collection of behaviors is called fluctuations because these behaviors come and go. In the study, 200 norm...Using fMRI technology to understand hyperlexia
...hat is associated with understanding the sounds of speech as well as a region on the right side of the brain that is part of the visual system. Co-author Peter Turkeltaub, a PhD student, draws an analogy of to the volume control on a radio. "A region of the brain implicated in reading skills, the left su...Pioneering implants for deaf people
...to hear, but usually not well enough to understand speech because the implant cannot separately stimulate di...ivate eight or more channels- enough to understand speech over the phone. ABIs, on the other hand, tend to stimulate only a single channel. But Shannon hopes...When alcohol consumption evolves from a 'social lubricant' into a 'crutch'
... seven were "performance" events, such as giving a speech to a group. "We found that drinking to relieve soc...ngle anxiety-provoking experience such as giving a speech in front of a group may not be the best way to study the relationship between social anxiety and alc...National study seeks cause of baffling, fatal disorder called multiple system atrophy
...rinary difficulties, male impotence, constipation, speech and swallowing difficulties, and blurred vision. Pneumonia is the most common cause of death, although irregularities in heartbeat or choking may be a contributing factor. Misdiagnosis or a delay in determining the cause of this multiple sympto...New ultrafast MRI benefits stroke patients
...by stroke symptoms, such as a weak arm or leg or a speech deficit," Dr. Gillard said. "Despite the machine noise and possible claustrophobia, agitated patients are more likely to remain still during a quick procedure than a lengthy one." Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States, killi...Brain activity abnormal in children with delayed speech
OAK BROOK, Ill. Children with unusually delayed speech tend to listen with the right side of the brain ra...used to investigate brain activity associated with speech delay. "With the advent of neuroimaging, we saw a new way of looking at language disorders," said No...UCF clinic diagnoses rare Foreign Accent Syndrome
...O, Nov. 19, 2003 - A University of Central Florida speech expert has diagnosed an extremely rare disorder in...ed and was able to speak with some difficulty. Her speech gradually improved during the next year until she was speaking with the same fluency as she had befo...Hearing aid research gets federal boost
... the ability of the hearing-impaired to understand speech in noisy environments. The work could help more th...te less self-noise will mean major enhancements to speech intelligibility in noisy environments, Miles said. Miles said these improvements would be accomplish...Better brain imaging helps surgeons avoid damage to language functions
... either the left or right brain hemisphere. Fluent speech was observed no matter which hemisphere was put to sleep. The fMRI testing revealed a non-typical, dual hemisphere location of language centers, but also indicated that few of these functions were located in the left frontal lobe, the area believed t...Dyslexia may involve both vision and hearing
...an good readers."The study did not use letters and speech sounds, suggesting that there may be a very basic sensory integration deficit in dyslexia that underlies reading difficulties," Flowers said. Wallace said the finding suggests better ways to teach people with reading disabilities. "We believe that th...Scientists map maturation of the human brain
...followed by areas involved in spatial orientation, speech and language development, and attention (upper and lower parietal lobes), spreading to the areas involved in executive functioning, attention or motor coordination (frontal lobes). Further, the areas that integrate these functions matured the last in...Canadian discovery promises treatment for HIV dementia
...ss, as well as motor abnormalities such as slurred speech and difficulties with movement. The findings of the two-year study, completed with principal co-investigator Christopher Power of the University of Calgary, were reported recently in Nature Neuroscience. Members of Overall's lab at the UBC Faculty o...Unusual form of memory loss often confused for Alzheimer's disease
...f the onset of word-finding difficulties, abnormal speech patterns and glaring spelling errors. Some patient...ected primary progressive aphasia, evaluation by a speech therapist is useful for exploring alternative communication strategies, Mesulam said. Unlike patient...'Voice academy' Web site, funded by NIDCD grant, helps teachers address voice problems
... teachers, said Julie Ostrem, program associate in speech pathology and audiology in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the project's principal investigator. "When you look at the occupations of people who seek help at voice centers, teaching is among the highest," Ostrem said. "We wanted to c...Wyeth chemists honored for Prevnar first combined pneumococcal vaccine for infants
...can result in hearing loss, learning disabilities, speech and hearing problems, and brain damage. Each year, more than one million children throughout the world die as a result of pneumococcal disease. The Heroes of Chemistry program will be held in conjunction with a celebration for the 80th anniversary ...Babbling key to evaluating speech development in babies with hearing loss
... help them monitor their babies' progress in early speech development thanks to a Purdue University speech-l...athologist. David Ertmer, who specializes in early speech and language development in children with hearing losses, created www.VocalDevelopment.com, an inter......le's exposure to the acoustical characteristics of speech sounds. Schwartz and Howe are postdoctoral fellows...f the patterns of frequency and amplitude in human speech sounds, based on a collection of recorded utterances spoken by more than 500 people. They found that...