Parkinson’s disease produces several motor symptoms, including different speech impairments that are known as hypokinetic dysarthria. Symptoms associated to dysarthria affect different dimensions of speech such as phonation, articulation, prosody, …
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) results from the progressive loss of neurons in the hippocampus, which affects the capability to produce coherent language. It affects lexical, grammatical, and semantic processes as well as speech fluency. This paper …
Speech signals may contain different paralinguistic aspects such as the presence of pathologies that affect the proper communication capabilities of a speaker. Those speech disorders have different origin depending on the type of the disease. For …
This chapter describes current methods and future trends in signal processing and pattern recognition techniques applied to the automatic analysis of motor impairments observed in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). A revision of the …
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the presence of different motor impairments. Information from speech, handwriting, and gait signals have been considered to evaluate the neurological state of the patients. On the …
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurological disorder that affects the motor system and produces several problems to control muscles and limbs. One of the major manifestations of the disease appears in gait and typically causes disability in the …
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects the language production and thinking capabilities of patients. The integrity of the brain is destroyed over time by interruptions in the interactions between neuron …
Aim: This paper introduces Apkinson, a mobile application for motor evaluation and monitoring of Parkinson’s disease patients. Materials & methods: The App is based on previously reported methods, for instance, the evaluation of articulation and …
Speech impairments are one of the earliest manifestations in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Particularly, articulation impairments related to the capability of the speaker to move the limbs and muscles of the vocal tract have been observed in the …