Kyung K. Peck1, Ryan Branski, Cathy Lazarus2,
Victoria Cody, Devon Kraus, Samantha Haupage, Cindy Ganz, Andrei Holodny,
Dennis Kraus
1Medical Physics and Radiology,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, United States; 2New
York University
Both
the Effortful and Mendelsohn maneuver are currently used in the clinical
setting as a component of a comprehensive rehabilitation of swallowing.
However, the brain responses to these tasks and how activation differs from
dry swallowing has not been investigated. In this study, we seek to provide
preliminary data regarding the neural networks associated with
commonly-employed rehabilitation strategies. We hypothesize that with
increased understanding of the neural bases behind these maneuvers, factors
of peripheral injury as well as the central adaptor response can be
considered in order to develop enhanced rehabilitation strategies for this
challenging patient population