Getting Parkinson's patients to speak up
Jessica Huber,left, and graduate student Meghan Moran demonstrate the technology developed by Huber that helps Parkinson's patients overcome the tendency to speak too quietly.
Article Summary
The sad reality of Parkinson’s disease is that it indiscriminately affects 1.5 million people in the U.S alone, making it one of the most common degenerative neurological conditions with no known cause or cure. In the effort to make one of Parkinson’s many debilitating symptoms more manageable for sufferers, researchers have developed a new technology to overcome voice and speech impairment by playing a recording of ambient sound resembling the chatter of a busy restaurant.
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