Open AccessMotor speech patterns in Huntington disease
Author(s) -
Sarah Diehl,
Antje S. Mefferd,
Ya-Chen Lin,
Jessie Sellers,
Katherine E McDonell,
Michael de Riesthal,
Daniel O. Claassen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.91
H-Index - 364
eISSN - 1526-632X
pISSN - 0028-3878
DOI - 10.1212/wnl.0000000000008541
Subject(s) - dysarthria , psychology , intelligibility (philosophy) , audiology , prosody , medicine , speech recognition , philosophy , epistemology , computer science
Dysarthric speech of persons with Huntington disease (HD) is typically described as hyperkinetic; however, studies suggest that dysarthria can vary and resemble patterns in other neurologic conditions. To test the hypothesis that distinct motor speech subgroups can be identified within a larger cohort of patients with HD, we performed a cluster analysis on speech perceptual characteristics of patient audio recordings.