Ghasemzadeh, Hamzeh Deliyski, Dimitar D
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Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
Laryngeal images obtained via high-speed videoendoscopy are an invaluable source of information for the advancement of voice science because they can capture the true cycle-to-cycle vibratory characteristics of the vocal folds in addition to the transient behaviors of the phonatory mechanism, such as onset, offset, and breaks. This information is o...
Park, Jin Alnouri, Ghiath Eichorn, Daniel Sataloff, Robert T
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Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
The normal aging process affects many human functions profoundly. The voice is no exception, and some aging effects on the voice are obvious including vocal fold atrophy, bowing, stiffness, more prominent vocal fold processes, and glottic insufficiency. The study's primary aim was to determine the correlation between presbylarynx and laryngeal elec...
Büyükatalay, Zahide Ciler Gökmen, Muhammed Fatih Yıldırım, Sibel Dursun, Gürsel
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Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
This study explores Islamic religious officials' voice use, disorders, and treatment methods by comparing the officials with teachers, the largest group of voice professionals. This is a nonrandomized retrospective study. This study included 85 patients with voice disorder complaints; 42 were religious officials and 43 were teachers. We compared th...
Pomaville, Fran Tekerlek, Kristi Radford, Anthony
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Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
This study examined the knowledge gained and behavioral changes made by vocal performers after attending a vocal hygiene education program. A single-group, pretest-posttest research design was utilized to examine the improvement of voice care knowledge and decrease of phonotraumatic behaviors in vocal performers. Data analysis involved a comparison...
Clarós, Pedro Ribeiro, Inês Clarós-Pujol, Astrid Pujol, Carmen Clarós, Andrés
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Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
Acromegaly is a rare disease with vocal changes being a common clinical finding. The authors present a very rare case of an opera singer with undetected acromegaly for years, whose tessiture progressively changed from tenor, to baritone, to bass. We analyze the evolution of vocal parameters over the years and the outcome after surgical treatment. C...
Vance, Dylan Alnouri, Ghiath Valentino, William L Paknezhad, Hassan Sataloff, Robert T
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Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
The purpose of this study was to determine the need for postoperative antibiotic administration in patients undergoing type I thyroplasty performed with Gore-Tex implant. Retrospective analysis. Medical records of patients from a quaternary care laryngology practice who underwent type I thyroplasty for glottic insufficiency using Gore-Tex (W.L. Gor...
Madill, Catherine McIlwaine, Anna Russell, Rosanne Hodges, Nicola J McCabe, Patricia
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Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
We studied whether concepts in motor skill learning could be operationalized to identify clinical interactions and behaviors in a voice therapy setting. Our aim was to test the feasibility of measuring these behaviors in the prepractice phase so that we could eventually evaluate and apply principles of motor learning and skill acquisition to Speech...
Froeschke, Laura L O
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Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
Adductor Spasmodic Dysphonia (ADSD), a form of focal dystonia, has been defined as a neurogenic, task-specific disorder characterized by abrupt spasms of intrinsic laryngeal muscles that result in phonatory breaks. Voice breaks are typically isolated to propositional speech, and reported to increase in severity as speaking demand or complexity incr...
Townes, Thomas Noelke, Carolyn Lively, Jonathan Mudd, Pamela
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Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
Benign vocal fold lesions (BVFL), including nodules, polyps, and cysts, are the most common etiology of dysphonia in the pediatric population. Voice surveys, such as the Pediatric Voice Handicap Index (PVHI), have become instrumental in the evaluation and monitoring of pediatric patients with dysphonia; however the symptom profiles reported in surv...
Cler, Gabriel J McKenna, Victoria S Dahl, Kimberly L Stepp, Cara E
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Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
The purpose of this study was to comprehensively evaluate voice and speech changes in one healthy 30-year-old transgender male undergoing testosterone therapy for transition. Testing occurred at three timepoints before cross-sex hormone therapy and every 2 weeks thereafter for 1 year. Data collected included measures of acoustics, aerodynamics, and...
