Diseases Associated with Mixed Dysarthrias

Question 1

UNM & LMN effecting limbs and bulbar muscles, progressive

Answer 1

ALS

Question 2

Generally mixed spastic-flaccid dysarthria is seen with what disease?

Answer 2

ALS

Question 3

median survival of ALS is ___yrs

Answer 3

3

Question 4

With ALS, 1st symptoms generally occur in the____, but in ____% signs and symptoms begin with speech & swallowing difficulty

Answer 4

limbs

30

Question 5

The most common of all acquired demyelinating CNS diseases is

Answer 5

MS

Question 6

Dysarthria may or may not be present in

Answer 6

MS

Question 7

What is the most common type of mixed dysarthria in MS patients?

Answer 7

spastic-ataxic

Question 8

An autosomal hereditary recessive disease beginning in childhood, results in ataxia of gait and speech, sclerosis of the dorsal & later columns of the spinal chord

Answer 8

Friedreich’s Ataxia

Question 9

develops in the 60s–death withing 10 yrs of dx, signs and symptoms include paralysis of vertical gaze, gait difficulty, falling, rigidity, pseudobulbar palsy, dysarthria, dysphagia, flat affect, irritability, depression and cognitive changes

Answer 9

Progressive Supernuclear Palsy (PSP)

Question 10

What type of dysarthria is seen in progressive supernuclear palsy?

Answer 10

combo of hypokinetic, spastic, and ataxic types

Question 11

typically develops around age 50, Parkinson’s like symptoms, cognitive decline

Answer 11

Shy-Drager Syndrome

Question 12

causes areas deep in the brain (just above spinal chord) to shrink, can be inherited, or uninherited, slightly more common in men than women, progress

Answer 12

olivopontocerebellar disease