Publications by authors named "F M Boonstra"
Background: Older adults at the emergency department (ED) with fall-related injuries are at risk of repeated falls. National guidelines state that the ED is responsible for initiating fall preventive care. A transmural fall-prevention care pathway (TFCP) at the ED can guide patients to tailored interventions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLongitudinal objective assessment of speech in Multiple Sclerosis.
Mult Scler Relat Disord
November 2024
Background: Remote objective tests may supplement in-clinic examination to better inform treatment decisions. Previous cross-sectional studies presented objective speech metrics as potential markers of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) disease progression.
Objective: To examine the short-term stability and long-term sensitivity of speech metrics to MS progression.
Article Synopsis
- This study investigates the reproducibility of fMRI findings related to motor speech function by analyzing data from a word repetition task performed by 14 healthy controls across two time points.
- Significant brain activation was noted in areas like the right cerebellum and sensorimotor cortices, with moderate reproducibility in the cerebellum but less consistency in other regions.
- The results suggest key regions involved in motor speech but indicate that further research is necessary to establish fMRI as a dependable measure of brain activity changes.