MRI biomarkers for memory-related impairment in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a systematic review

S Ghaderi, F Fatehi, S Kalra… - … Lateral Sclerosis and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder associated
with cognitive and behavioral impairments and motor symptoms. Magnetic resonance …

[HTML][HTML] At-home wearables and machine learning sensitively capture disease progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

AS Gupta, S Patel, A Premasiri, F Vieira - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis causes degeneration of motor neurons, resulting in
progressive muscle weakness and impairment in motor function. Promising drug …

[HTML][HTML] Acoustic voice analysis as a useful tool to discriminate different ALS phenotypes

G Milella, D Sciancalepore, G Cavallaro, G Piccirilli… - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Approximately 80–96% of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) become unable to
speak during the disease progression. Assessing upper and lower motor neuron impairment …

[HTML][HTML] Precision medicine in ALS: Identification of new acoustic markers for dysarthria severity assessment

R Dubbioso, M Spisto, L Verde, VV Iuzzolino… - … Signal Processing and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease affecting
motorneurons of the bulbar, cervical, thoracic, or lumbar segments. Bulbar presentation is a …

The relationship of rate and pause features to the communicative participation of people living with ALS

KP Connaghan, JR Green, M Eshghi… - Muscle & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Introduction/Aims Many people living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (PALS)
report restrictions in their day‐to‐day communication (communicative participation) …

[HTML][HTML] Detecting bulbar amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) using automatic acoustic analysis

LER Simmatis, J Robin, MJ Spilka… - BioMedical Engineering …, 2024 - Springer
Automatic speech assessments have the potential to dramatically improve ALS clinical
practice and facilitate patient stratification for ALS clinical trials. Acoustic speech analysis …

Comparison of Vowel and Sentence Intelligibility in People With Dysarthria Secondary to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

E Krajewski, J Lee, AJ Olmstead, Z Simmons - Journal of Speech, Language …, 2024 - ASHA
Purpose: In this study, we examined the utility of vowel intelligibility testing for assessing the
impact of dysarthria on speech characteristics in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis …

PROSA—a multicenter prospective observational study to develop low-burden digital speech biomarkers in ALS and FTD

J Tröger, J Baltes, E Baykara, E Kasper… - … Lateral Sclerosis and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Objective There is a need for novel biomarkers that can indicate disease state, project
disease progression, or assess response to treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) …

[PDF][PDF] Responsiveness, Sensitivity and Clinical Utility of Timing-Related Speech Biomarkers for Remote Monitoring of ALS Disease Progression

H Kothare, M Neumann, J Liscombe, J Green… - Proc …, 2023 - vikramr.com
In this study, we describe the responsiveness of timing-related measures extracted from
read speech in persons with ALS (pALS) collected via a remote patient monitoring platform …

A Clinical Focus on Shared Decision Making in Clinical Practice When Providing Dysarthria and Dysphagia Services to Individuals With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

C Donohue, B Perry, KL Garand - Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest …, 2024 - ASHA
Purpose: Traditional health care decision-making models center on clinicians making
decisions for patients/caregivers based on the best available research evidence. However …