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Acoustics* ; Dysarthria*

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Dysarthria ; Skull ; Skull Base ; Tongue

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Dysarthria* ; Hypoglycemia* ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging*

We experienced two suspected cases of hereditary cerebellar ataxia of ten years and right years aged boys who brothers. The patients manifested progressive wide base ataxic gait, incordination, intention tremor, impaired balance and dysarthria. A bries review of related literature is also presented.
Cerebellar Ataxia* ; Dysarthria ; Gait ; Humans ; Siblings* ; Tremor

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify related factors of stress, social support and rehabilitation motivation of stroke survivors and analyze their relationship. METHOD: A sample of 106 stroke survivors completed face-to-face interviews. The levels of stress, social support and rehabilitation motivation were measured by the Neuman's stress, Multidimentional Scale Perceived Social Support and Han's Rehabilitation Motivation, respectively. The t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation were conducted using the SPSS 17.0. RESULTS: The mean scores of stress, social support and rehabilitation motivation were 3.3 (SD=0.76), 3.2 (SD=0.88), and 3.4 (SD=0.49) respectively. Compared to stroke survivors who had no spouses, those with spouses had a lower level of stress (t=9.52, p=.003), a higher level of social support (t=7.32, p=.008) and a higher level of rehabilitation motivation (t=15.39, p=.001). The rehabilitation motivation was significantly higher in stroke survivors with higher education (F=5.00, p=.001), more monthly income (F=15.39, p=.001), greater income satisfaction (F=3.80, p=.026), shorter duration of disease (F=3.64, p=.030) and absence of dysarthria (t=6.81, p=.010). Stress, social support and rehabilitation motivation are significantly related with each other. CONCLUSION: The findings suggest that these significant factors should be considered when caring for stroke survivors.
Dysarthria ; Humans ; Motivation ; Spouses ; Stroke ; Survivors

Dysarthria ; etiology ; Encephalitis, Viral ; complications ; Facial Paralysis ; etiology ; Humans ; Syndrome

Acute cerebellitis is a clinically isolated condition showing cerebellar signs such as ataxia, dizziness and dysarthria. Most of them are associated with viral infection, which generally occur in childhood and show benign course without sequelae. Tuberculous cerebellitis is very rare and its outcome is not well described. The aim of this study is to describe the clinical features and course in a patient with tuberculous cerebellits. We will also discuss the possible prognostic factors in acute cerebellitis.
Adult ; Ataxia ; Cerebellum ; Dizziness ; Dysarthria ; Encephalitis ; Humans ; Tuberculosis

We recently encountered a Korean patient with oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD). His major clinical manifestations were late onset bilateral ptosis, dysarthria, and dysphagia. Direct sequencing analysis of the PABPN1 gene demonstrated a heterozygous insertion of 9 bp sequence [(GCG)(GCA)(GCA); c.28insGCGGCA GCA], resulting in an in-frame insertion of 3 alanines (p. A10insAAA). To our knowledge, this is the first report of a genetically confirmed case of OPMD in Korea.
Deglutition Disorders ; Dysarthria ; Humans ; Korea ; Muscular Dystrophies ; Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal*

Stereotactic thalamotomy has traditionally provided good relief of tremor for patients with intractable tremor dominant in Parkinson's disease. However bradykinesia, dyskinesia and rigidity are less reliably treated with this technique. Although posteroventral pallidotomy(PVP) can alleviate dyskinesias appendicular bradykinesia and rigidity, tremor may not be completely ameliorated. Between January 1993 and May 1997, the authors performed posteroventral pallidotomy(PVP) on 69 patients with Parkinson's disease who had bradikinesia, rigidity, drug induced dyskinesia and tremor. Of these patients who had only PVPs 17(25%) patients had severe tremor, 20(29%) patients moderate tremor and 32(46 %) patients mild or no tremor after the surgery. We have combined ventrolateral thalamotomy(VLT ) and PVP in 37 patients with moderate to severe tremor. Of the 37 patients, who had both PVP and VLT, 27(73%) patients showed good improvement, and fair improve-ment in 10(27%). Except for 6 cases with transient dysarthria we did not encounter any other operative complications from the ipsilateral combined PVP and VLT. The combination of the two procedures appear to provide excellent relief for the majority of symptoms in patients suffering from advanced Parkinsons disease with rigidity bradykinesia, dyskinesia and tremor.
Dysarthria ; Dyskinesias ; Humans ; Hypokinesia ; Pallidotomy* ; Parkinson Disease* ; Tremor

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 8 (SCA8), originally described in a family characterized by pure cerebellar ataxia, is caused by the expansion of combined CTA/CTG repeats on chromosome 13q21. We experienced a 26-year-old man who presented with a 10-years history of slowly progressive gait ataxia, dysarthria and blepharospasm. We performed genetic studies for SCA1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8, and detected CTA/CTG repeat expansion in the SCA8 gene. We now report the first Korean familial case of SCA8 confirmed by genetic study.
Adult ; Blepharospasm ; Cerebellar Ataxia ; Dysarthria ; Gait Ataxia ; Humans ; Spinocerebellar Ataxias*