Speech dysfunction is a major focal neurologic disability. The type of speech abnormality
that a patient manifests allows the clinician to localize the lesion. We present a case of a …

Motor difficulty in speech with impaired articulation and pronunciation has been
termeddysarthria. Although the list of neurological causes of dysarthria is long, an elderly …

More than 30 years ago, Darley, Aronson, and Brown (1969) proposed clinicoanatomic
correlations for seven perceptual types of dysarthria. These correlations have not been …

Objective: Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder resulting from impairment in strength,
speed and coordination of neural and/or muscular structures that are related to respiration …

A 36-year-old healthy man presented with sudden onset speech difficulty. Thorough clinical
examination revealed interesting deficits suggestive of apraxia of speech. He was found to …

Despite the well-known facts discerned from interesting cases of speech and language
disturbances over thousands of years, the scientific background and the limitless …

Sirs: Dysarthria can be the first sign of a neurological disease. In the initial phase it can be
difficult to differentiate dysarthria from other (acquired) speech disturbances, especially if the …

There are clear line drawings and tables but the radiographs shown are rather small and
lacking in detail. The ECG traces would be more useful if the salient features were pointed …

We report a 49-year-old man who presented progressive dysarthria, dysphagia, and left
hemiparesis. The patient was well until June 28th of 1993 when he noted'weakness' in his …

For the astute clinician, a speech abnormality, no less so than a gait disturbance, is a road
map to neuroanatomic localization and clinical diagnosis. However, it is difficult for …