DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Speech deficits
Neuroprosthetics
Neuroprosthetics (also called neural prosthetics) is a discipline related to neuroscience and biomedical engineering concerned with developing neural prostheses. Neural prostheses are a series of devices that can substitute a motor, sensory or cognitive modality that might have been damaged as a result of an injury or a disease. Cochlear implants provide an example of such devices. These devices substitute the functions performed by the ear drum and Stapes, while simulating the frequency analysis performed in the cochlea. A microphone on an external unit gathers the sound and processes it; the processed signal is then transferred to an implanted unit that stimulates the auditory nerves through a microelectrode array...
Speech deficits - List of case studies
- Mild Alzheimer’s disease – additional opinion
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time, space and autobiographical parameters . Spontaneous speech is characterized by fluent language, with normal prosody, sufficiently ... the cognitive, behavioral and activities of daily living deficits suggest that the most likely diagnosis in this case is a dementia ...
- SOL (Space occupying lesion) of brain
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female underwent an episode of dizziness followed by speech disturbances and some right hand weakness. Her physical exam showed very ... to write. Also, 2 days before, the patient noticed deficits in her speech . No headaches, vomiting, cramps, disturbed gait, or ...
- Motor Neuron Disease – additional opinion
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by Dr. X, neurology specialist in Milan. He describes her speech difficulty as “ Spastic dysarthria with slow and nasal speech ... bulbar region and mostly spastic i.e. upper motor neuron deficits. Pulmonary function testing should include spirometry and maximal ...
- List of Symptoms
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Acalculia (simple written calculations) Activities deficits Acute backache (radiation to both lower limbs) Acute dyspnea ... in motility Deficit in the oral comprehension of the speech Deficits in speech Delirious thoughts Delirium ...
- Chromosome 22 micro-deletion syndrome
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cognitive ability, with attentive-amnesic-executive deficits. The suggested treatment is drug therapy together with psychological ... for tetralogy of Fallot) delayed motorial learning and speech, cognitive defect, high myopia, facial dysmorphies (narrow rima ...