Publications by authors named "Laura Robotham"
Background: Interstitial lung diseases (ILD), such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and non-specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are severe, progressive pulmonary disorders with a poor prognosis. Prompt and accurate diagnosis is important to enable patients to receive appropriate care at the earliest possible stage to delay disease progression and prolong survival. Artificial intelligence-assisted lung auscultation and ultrasound (LUS) could constitute an alternative to conventional, subjective, operator-related methods for the accurate and earlier diagnosis of these diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpeech production impairment is a frequent deficit observed in aphasic patients and rehabilitation programs have been extensively developed. Nevertheless, there is still no agreement on the type of rehabilitation that yields the most successful outcomes. Here, we ran a detailed meta-analysis of 39 studies of word production rehabilitation involving 124 patients.
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- Patients with Huntington's Disease (HD) have difficulty recognizing emotional signals, but the specifics of this impairment, including whether it affects positive emotions, remain debated.
- This study includes 14 HD patients and 15 control participants who were tested on their ability to recognize a range of emotional vocalizations, both positive and negative.
- Results showed that while HD patients performed better than random chance, they still showed impairments in recognizing both positive emotions like pleasure and negative emotions like fear and anger, suggesting a broad deficit in emotion recognition.