According to the researchers, up to 95% of people with ALS experience dysarthria—a motor speech disorder characterized by muscle weakness. Dysarthria can cause slurred speech, slowed speech ...

This article discusses the pathophysiology of PD as it relates to speech disorders and considers nonpharmaceutical therapeutic options for hypokinetic dysarthria. The most common symptom of ...

Myasthenia gravis is a neuromuscular junction disorder with a hallmark of progressive muscle weakness and frequent ...

However, the ability to communicate can be compromised by neural and muscle damage, leading to a condition called dysarthria, which causes speech to become slow, slurred and hard to understand.

Nearly 90 per cent of Parkinson's patients suffer a speech disorder called hypokinetic dysarthria, which causes them to speak in a quiet, slurred, monotone or jumbled way. Researchers in the UK ...