Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology articles from December 2003

Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology archives from December 2003

Whales, brains, and islands.(Editorial)
December 1, 2003... ... for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Mr. Stevenson had...

Medical interventions for spasmodic dysphonia and some related conditions: a systematic review.(ANCDS Bulletin Board)
December 1, 2003... This systematic review of the literature addresses the medical management of spasmodic dysphonia (SD) and some related conditions. It was carried as part of the development of practice guidelines for the Academy of Neurologic Communication...

Revisiting the professional doctorate in medical speech-language pathology.(Health Care Forum)
December 1, 2003... Editor's Note: The following essay, "Revisiting the Professsional Doctorate in Medical Speech-Language Pathology," by Rosemary Lubinski, is a thoughtful and balanced plea for reconsideration of a controversial topic. The Editor-in-Chief...

Ancient neuroscience: doctors in the Ancient Near East and the entity that reasons and speaks.
December 1, 2003... This article examines how people of the Ancient Near East thought about that aspect of the human that reasons and speaks. The earliest records of ancient Mesopotamia show that people believed this entity survived death, but no attempt was made...

Respiratory function and variability in individuals with Parkinson disease: pre- and post-Lee Silverman Voice Treatment.
December 1, 2003... The high occurrence of speech symptoms, most notably reduced loudness, in individuals with Parkinson disease (PD) implicates the respiratory speech subsystem as a factor in speech disorders associated with PD. In the current study, respiratory...

Specificity of the right hemisphere's contribution to verbal communication: the cognitive resources hypothesis.
December 1, 2003... A lesion in the right cerebral hemisphere (RH) interferes with verbal communication, and specifically with the semantic processing of words. However, the reported impairments of the semantic processing of words among right-hemisphere-damaged...

Effects of bolus volume and consistency on multiple swallow behavior in children and adults.
December 1, 2003... Multiple swallow behavior is defined as a series of repeated swallows that clear a single bolus from the oropharyngeal cavity. This behavior has been identified as a component of a disordered swallowing system. Recent investigations have found,...

Reliability of speech intelligibility ratings using the Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale.
December 1, 2003... The Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) is widely used by medical, nursing, and allied-health professionals in the management and study of patients with Parkinson disease (PD), who sometimes present with decreased speech...

The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense.
December 1, 2003... AUTHOR: Michael Shermer PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, 2001 ISBN: 0-19-51326-4, 360 pages, $16.95 The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense is Michael Shermer's latest book on science, pseudoscience, and everything in...