People with Parkinson’s disease often experience unwelcome changes in their voice and speech. For example, some patients speak at a low volume despite their efforts to communicate clearly with loved ones. Unfortunately, treatments for voice and speech symptoms are limited by our poor understanding of how the brain produces speech. The purpose of this review paper, authored by members of the Brain Modulation Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Speech Neuroscience lab at Boston University, and a collaborator in Pittsburgh, is to describe our most up-to-date understanding of the computations the brain performs when we are speaking, and what computational deficits might underly the symptoms in Parkinson’s disease.
The paper will be published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience as part of a call for papers called “Beyond the speech motor disorders in Parkinson’s disease: mechanisms, neural substrates, and potential therapeutic interventions.”
You can find the paper here.
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