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Common clinical features of ataxic dysarthria include abnormalities in speech modulation, rate of speech, explosive or scanning speech, slurred speech, irregular stress patterns, and vocalic and consonantal misarticulations. [13] [14] Ataxic dysarthria is associated with damage to the left cerebellar hemisphere in right-handed patients. [15]
Diagnosis of pseudobulbar palsy is based on observation of the symptoms of the condition. Tests examining jaw jerk and gag reflex can also be performed. It has been suggested that the majority of patients with pathological laughter and crying have pseudobulbar palsy due to bilateral corticobulbar lesions and often a bipyramidal involvement of ...
Differential diagnosis [ edit ] In contrast, pseudobulbar palsy is a clinical syndrome similar to bulbar palsy but in which the damage is located in upper motor neurons of the corticobulbar tracts in the mid-pons (i.e., in the cranial nerves IX-XII), that is the nerve cells coming down from the cerebral cortex innervating the motor nuclei in ...
3.1 Differential diagnosis. 4 Management. 5 Epidemiology. ... It is a diagnosis of exclusion. [2] ... Slurred speech and nystagmus;
The differential diagnosis of patients who experience symptoms of paresthesias, derealization, dizziness, ... Inability to speak or slurred speech [31 See also ...
Probes inserted by Mrs White in 2017 and replaced in 2019 led to slurred speech and an inability to function. Both times, the probes were in the wrong place and the failure was finally put right ...
The DSM-5 defines alcohol intoxication as at least one of the following symptoms that developed during or close after alcohol ingestion: slurred speech, incoordination, unsteady walking/movement, nystagmus (uncontrolled eye movement), attention or memory impairment, or near unconsciousness or coma. [16]
She, 36, thought her slurred speech was a migraine. Her co-worker noticed she was having a stroke. Now, she wants people to know acronym BE FAST to detect the signs.