Neural Representations of the Voice Tremor Spectrum

Abstract

Voice tremor is a common movement disorder that manifests as involuntary oscillations of laryngeal muscles, leading to rhythmic alterations in voice pitch and loudness. Differential diagnosis of essential tremor of voice (ETv) is often challenging and includes dystonic tremor of voice (DTv), which is characterized by irregular, isometric contractions of laryngeal muscles during dystonic activity. Although clinical characteristics of voice tremor are well described, the pathophysiology underlying its heterogeneous phenomenology remains limited.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Sep 25, 2020
Source ID
10.1002/mds.28259

Entities

People

  • Kristina Simonyan
  • Laura de Lima Xavier

Organizations

  • Harvard Medical School
  • Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • United States Department of Defense

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.