Detecting functional impairment with the Digital Clock and Recall.

Background: Distinguishing between mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early dementia requires both neuropsychological and functional assessment that often relies on caregivers' insights. Contacting a patient's caregiver can be time-consuming in a physician's already-filled workday.

Objective: To assess the utility of a brief, machine learning (ML)-enabled digital cognitive assessment, the Digital Clock and Recall (DCR), for detecting functional dependence.

Psychometric properties of light touch-pressure somatosensory measures in adults with neurological disorders: A systematic review.

Objectives: To critically appraise the psychometric properties of light touch-pressure somatosensory assessments to provide guidance for tool selection for research or clinical purposes.

Data Sources: MEDLINE, CINAHL, and PsycInfo were searched for research indexed from January 1990-November 2022. English language and human subject filters were applied.

Factors Influencing Teachers' Experience of Vocal Fatigue and Classroom Voice Amplification.

Background: Voice disorders among teachers are widespread. Teachers' voice problems have been shown to influence the teaching-learning process, thereby impeding students' academic performance. Voice amplification has been used as a preventative strategy to avoid voice problems and as a means of augmenting student reception of a teacher's voice.

Sports Related Concussion Impacts Speech Rate and Muscle Physiology.

Objective: Establish objective and subjective speech rate and muscle function differences between athletes with and without sports related concussion (SRC) histories and provide potential motor speech evaluation in SRC.

Methods: Over 1,110 speech samples were obtained from 30, 19-22 year-old athletes who had sustained an SRC within the past 2 years and 30 pair-wise matched control athletes with no history of SRC. Speech rate was measured via average time per syllable, average unvoiced time per syllable, and expert perceptual judgment.

The Effect of Upper Airway Ailments on Teachers' Experience of Vocal Fatigue.

Background: Teachers have been found to have a higher than normal risk to develop voice disorders. One common symptom of voice problems among teachers is the report and occurrence of vocal fatigue, often associated with different individual, physical, environmental, and professional factors.

Aim: The aim of this study was to provide insight into the potential effect of sinus infections, laryngitis, colds, seasonal allergies, and reflux on reported vocal fatigue, as quantified by the Vocal Fatigue Index (VFI).

Sports-Related Concussion: Neurometabolic Aspects.

Concussion is a transitory brain injury resulting from a blow to the head. Concussion is considered a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), which is self-limited. Repetitive mTBI has been associated with chronic, progressive neurological damage.

Concussions: Activity Avoidance and Rest Recommendation.

Research surrounding rest recommendations for the concussed population is discussed. Rest is compared with activity avoidance, which is common in several chronic disease and traumatic injury types. The case is made for rest recommendations tailored to each head-injured individual.

The Effect of Classroom Capacity on Vocal Fatigue as Quantified by the Vocal Fatigue Index.

Objective: Previous research has concluded that teachers are at a higher-than-normal risk for voice issues that can cause occupational limitations. While some risk factors have been identified, there are still many unknowns.

Patients And Methods: A survey was distributed electronically with 506 female teacher respondents.

Gender Differences in the Reporting of Vocal Fatigue in Teachers as Quantified by the Vocal Fatigue Index.

Objectives: Occupational voice users report higher instances of vocal health problems. Women, who are more likely than men to report voice problems, are the largest members of some occupational voice users, such as teachers. While a common complaint among this population is vocal fatigue, it has been difficult to quantify.