BACKGROUND To reduce the risk of long-term swallowing complications after radiation, swallowing exercises may be helpful. Both the rate of adherence to swallowing exercises and its impact on future swallowing function are unknown. METHODS In all, 109 patients with oropharyngeal cancer beginning radiation were tracked for 2 years to determine adherence to swallowing exercises. Participants com...

SINCLAIR, k%J.JAM J. Role of the pharyngeal pbxus in initiation of swallowing. Am. J. Physiol. 221(5) : 1260-1263. 1971.-In preparation for stimulation studies, 22 cats were electrolytically decerebrated. The intact cephalic branch of the pharyngeal branch of the vagus nerve (Za) was electrically stimulated to determine its role in the initiation of the swallowing reflex. Comparative data were ...

INTRODUCTION  The act of swallowing depends on a complex and dynamic process which uses common structures to the act of breathing; respiratory problems can cause swallowing difficulties. AIM  To assess the swallowing pharyngeal phase in patients with chronic cough. METHOD  Retrospective study with 15 patients of both genders, patients with chronic cough and risk factors for aspiration defin...

Background and Aim: Human brain research in recent years has demonstrated the existence of mirror neurons in Brodmann areas (BA) 44, 6, and BA40. However, there has been almost no previous research on swallowing and mirror neurons. We have investigated the activity of mirror neurons during swallowingrelated visual stimulation. Subjects and Methods: Subjects were 15 healthy individuals (6 male, ...

PURPOSE To perform an integrative review of studies on liquid sequential swallowing, by characterizing the methodology of the studies and the most important findings in young and elderly adults. RESEARCH STRATEGY Review of the literature written in English and Portuguese on PubMed, LILACS, SciELO and MEDLINE databases, within the past twenty years, available fully, using the following uniterm...

Research exists that evaluates the mechanics of swallowing respiratory coordination in healthy children and adults as well and individuals with swallowing impairment. The research program summarized in this article represents a systematic examination of swallowing respiratory coordination across the lifespan as a means of behaviorally investigating mechanisms of cortical modulation. Using time-...

Stimulation of water receptors in the laryngopharynx (LP) with water facilitates voluntary swallowing in humans. Based on measures of swallowing intervals (SIs) in repetitive swallowing, we investigated characteristics of laryngopharyngeal water receptors in humans. Healthy adult volunteers were instructed to perform repetitive swallowing as quickly as possible during infusion of a solution int...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of self-exercise on oropharyngeal swallowing function in patients with dysphagia. [Subjects and Methods] Nine patients with dysphagia after stroke were recruited. Self-exercise including effortful swallowing, tongue strengthening, and shaker exercise was performed 5 times a week for 4 weeks. Swallowing function was evaluated usin...

Lateral lemniscus, a relay nucleus of auditory sensation, is involved in the control of phonatory movements such as human speech and vocalization of animals. The present study was designed to test whether neurons in the lateral lemniscus contributed to the control of swallowing, one of non-phonic oro-pharyngolaryngeal movements. In acutely decerebrated cats (n=15), swallowing was induced by ele...