Functional oropharyngeal sensory disruption interferes with the cortical control of swallowing

BACKGROUND: Sensory input is crucial to the initiation and modulation of swallowing. From a clinical point of view, oropharyngeal sensory deficits have been shown to be an important cause of dysphagia and aspiration in stroke patients. In the present study we therefore investigated effects of functi...

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Main Authors: Teismann, Inga K, Steinstraeter, Olaf, Stoeckigt, Kati, Suntrup, Sonja, Wollbrink, Andreas, Pantev, Christo, Dziewas, Rainer
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2007
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1950520/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17678546
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-8-62
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