This paper presents a series of case studies to explore the understanding, acceptance and value of compassionate mind training (CMT) with psychotic voice hearers. We were interested in the degree to which such people are able to access and feel the positive emotions of 'warmth' and 'contentment' to become more self-compassionate. We also explored how CMT affected participants' hostile voices, t...

introduction: the every possible attempt in voice disorders assessment is to gather samples which represent individual s’ actual voice in the daily speech. the researchers have found that voice characteristics in reading a passage are closer to daily speech. making texts has been started since early 20th century. the lack o f suitable text in farsi language makes it difficult to conduct requisi...

Introduction: Laryngeal burns cause long-term voice disorders due to mucosal changes of the vocal folds. Inhalation injuries affect voice production and result in changes in the mucosal thickness and voice quality.   Case Report: A 47-year-old woman was transferred to our department with laryngeal burns sustained during a house fire. On laryngoscopic examination, mucosal waves of both vocal fol...

BACKGROUND Teachers, as professional voice users, are at particular risk of voice disorders. Among contributing factors, stress and psychological tension could play a role but epidemiological data on this problem are scarce. The aim of this study was to evaluate prevalence and cofactors of voice disorders among teachers in the French National Education system, with particular attention paid to ...

One of the most debilitating disorders is adductor spasmodic dysphonia (ADSD), a voice disorder caused by involuntary movements of the muscles of the larynx (voice box). For treating ADSD, botulinum toxin (BT) injections turned out to be very useful. However, the effects of BT are highly variable, so at present, there is no objective criterion of when such a BT treatment is necessary. It is the...

Prevalence of Vocal Symptoms and Voice Disorders among Teacher Students and Teachers and a Model of Early Intervention Susanna Simberg University of Helsinki, Finland The overall aims of the research done for this thesis were to investigate the prevalence of vocal symptoms and voice disorders among students who were studying to become teachers (teacher students) and to develop a model of early ...

Parkinson’s disease is a worldwide frequent neurodegenerative disorder with increasing incidence. Speech disturbance appears during the progression of the disease. UPDRS is a gold standard tool for diagnostic and follow up of the disease. We aim at estimating the UPDRS score based on biomedical voice recordings. In this paper, we study the hubness phenomenon in context of the UPDRS score estima...