MSD Misc
Bilateral damage to the ___________ system can result in weakness, increased muscle tone (spasticity), and abnormal muscle reflexes.
What is Upper Motor Neuron (UMN)?
82% of etiologies of hyperkinetic dysarthria are
What is undetermined?
This movement disorder can benefit from reduced speech rate during speech intervention
What is Action Myoclonus?
AOS affects articulation and ___
This occurs when there is a lesion on the right facial nerve (CN 7, LMN)
What is facial paralysis on both the upper and lower part of the right side of the face?
Damage to the _______ is associated with ataxic dysarthria.
What is the cerebellum?
Lee, at age 67 and with a medical history of Type II diabetes, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol levels, and Lt. hemisphere stroke, has sudden onset of drooping and weakness in the lower right face and slow and slurred speech (imprecise consonants).His lesion site may be:
What is Unilateral Upper Motor Neuron (UUMN)?
This is the most common dysarthria type in ALS patients.
What is Flaccid-spastic dysarthria?
The patient with flaccid dysarthria, who shows short phrases due to a compromised breathing pattern, may be due to the injury in the _____________.
What is spinal nerve?
The most common hyperkinetic movement disorders
What are neurogenic spasmodic dysphonia and essential voice tremor?
The most common etiology of the UUMN dysarthria.
What is a stroke with the supratentorial lesion that does not involve cerebellum or brainstem?
Lee, at age 67 and with a medical history of Type II diabetes, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol levels, and Lt. hemisphere stroke, has sudden onset of drooping and weakness in the lower right face and slow and slurred speech (imprecise consonants). _____ is the likely motor speech diagnosis.
What is unilateral upper motor neuron dysarthria?
This cranial nerve supplies the muscles of the pharynx and is responsible for pharyngeal constriction and palatal elevation and retraction during speech.
What is the Vagus Nerve (CN X)?
This type of dysarthria can show hypernasality, strained voice, slow and effortful speech, imprecise articulation, drooling, muscle weakness, and fatigue.
What is Spastic Dysarthria?
This is when intelligibility starts to significantly decline in an ALS patient.
What is when the patient cannot produce 32 syllables per breath during a speech AMR task?
When mixed dysarthria occurs you will not observe hypokinetic dysarthria symptoms in this condition.
What is Friedreich’s Ataxia?
Unilateral facial drooping, inability to wrinkle the forehead, reduced blinking, drooling, and a flattened nasolabial fold are indications of a lesion to _______
What is the Facial Nerve (CN VII)?
These movements are more rapid than those you can see from dystonia.
What are involuntary movements of chorea?
The speech characteristic most likely to occur with unilateral upper motor neuron dysarthria
What is a harsh voice?
Two basic methods of evaluating motor speech disorders are instrumentation and ____________________.
What is perceptual judgment?