Mohit Saxena1, Senthil S. Kumaran2, Vinay Goyal1, Vaishna Narang3, Madhuri Behari1
1Department of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India; 2Department of N.M.R., All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India; 3The School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Delhi, India
Parkinsonism is associated with speech dysfunction. The study evaluates the abnormalities in articulatory planning, execution and their correlation in Parkinsons disease (PD), Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) with the BOLD activation pattern, to understand the speech deficits in these disorders.