Migration and torture in today's world.

The goal of the volume Migration and Torture in Today's World, curated by Fabio Perocco, is to show the existence of a link between torture and current migration policies.

Validity and reliability of the Italian translation of the Yale Pharyngeal Residue Severity Rating Scale.

Objective: In the dysphagic patient, pharyngeal residues (PR) are associated with aspiration and poor quality of life. The assessment of PR using validated scales during flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) is crucial for rehabilitation. This study aims to validate and test the reliability of the Italian version of the Yale Pharyngeal Residue Severity Rating Scale (IT-YPRSRS).

Biofeedback as an Adjunctive Treatment for Post-stroke Dysphagia: A Pilot-Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background And Purpose: Post-stroke dysphagia affects almost half of the survivors and severely influences quality of life, thus becoming swallowing rehabilitation of paramount importance. However, there is little adequate evidence on which the best rehabilitative strategy can be. Surface electromyography (sEMG) allows for recording swallowing muscles' activity and provides real time visual feedback, as a biofeedback adjunctive technique to improve treatment outcome.

Right fronto-parietal white matter disruption contributes to speech impairments in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Introduction: Non-linguistic properties of speech are widely heterogeneous and require complex neurological integration. The association between white matter integrity and the severity of dysarthria was investigated in a group of patients diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Methods: Thirty-six patients diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis completed a magnetic resonance imaging protocol inclusive of diffusion-weighted images.

Morphometric correlates of dysarthric deficit in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Our objective was to investigate the volumetric correlates of speech in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Twenty-three ALS patients had a structural 3D MRI scan, neuropsychological, linguistic and speech assessments. Twenty-three healthy adults of comparable age, education, white-matter hyperintensity load and intracranial volumes were also recruited.