Publication detail

Assessing Parkinson's disease using prosodic analysis of neutral, stress-modified and rhymed speech

GALÁŽ, Z. KISKA, T. ZVONČÁK, V. MUCHA, J. SMÉKAL, Z.

Original Title

Assessing Parkinson's disease using prosodic analysis of neutral, stress-modified and rhymed speech

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

Up to 90% of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) suffer from hypokinetic dysarthria (HD). One of the most frequent manifestations of HD is dysprosody. Some hidden relations between clinical signs of HD and other motor and non-motor features of PD probably exist. To investigate, whether acoustic analysis of dysarthric speech can provide neurologists and clinical psychologists objective, para-clinical insight into motor and non-motor features of the examined PD patient, 72 PD patients were assessed by 8 clinical rating scales. Prosodic analysis of emotionally-neutral reading, stress-modified reading and poem recitation is performed. Correlation and regression analysis is employed to determine possible relationship between HD and progress of PD. Close relation of monopitch and monoloudness to motor aspects of PD was found. Freezing of gait showed strong connection with speech rate disturbances. Non-motor aspects were found independent of stress and rhythm in speech and strongly associated with speech rate and pausing abnormalities.

Keywords

acoustic analysis, hypokinetic dysarthria, Parkinson’s disease, clinical rating scales, regression

Authors

GALÁŽ, Z.; KISKA, T.; ZVONČÁK, V.; MUCHA, J.; SMÉKAL, Z.

Released

30. 4. 2017

ISBN

1213-1539

Periodical

Elektrorevue - Internetový časopis (http://www.elektrorevue.cz)

Year of study

19

Number

2

State

Czech Republic

Pages from

57

Pages to

66

Pages count

9

BibTex

@article{BUT135642,
  author="Zoltán {Galáž} and Tomáš {Kiska} and Vojtěch {Zvončák} and Ján {Mucha} and Zdeněk {Smékal}",
  title="Assessing Parkinson's disease using prosodic analysis of neutral, stress-modified and rhymed speech",
  journal="Elektrorevue - Internetový časopis (http://www.elektrorevue.cz)",
  year="2017",
  volume="19",
  number="2",
  pages="57--66",
  issn="1213-1539"
}