Características del habla, el lenguaje y la deglución en la enfermedad de Huntington

Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Facultad de Medicina. Revista

Fandiño-Cardona, Juan Miguel¹  Castillo-Triana, Nicolás¹  Camargo-Mendoza, Maryluz¹  Mateus-Moreno, Angélica¹  Moreno-Martínez, Mariana¹ 

[1]Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

关键词: Huntington Disease;    Speech-Language Pathology;    Speech;    Language;    Deglutition (MeSH).;   

DOI  :  10.15446/revfacmed.v65n2.57449

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Universidad Nacional de Colombia * Facultad de Medicina

【 摘 要 】

Huntington's disease (HD) has been described as a genetic condition caused by a mutation in the CAG (cytosine-adenine-guanine) nucleotide sequence. Depending on the stage of the disease, people may have difficulties in speech, language and swallowing. The purpose of this paper is to describe these difficulties in detail, as well as to provide an account on speech and language therapy approach to this condition. Regarding speech, it is worth noticing that characteristics typical of hyperkinetic dysarthria can be found due to underlying choreic movements. The speech of people with HD tends to show shorter sentences, with much simpler syntactic structures, and difficulties in tasks that require complex cognitive processing. Moreover, swallowing may present dysphagia that progresses as the disease develops. A timely, comprehensive and effective speech-language intervention is essential to improve the quality of life of people and contribute to their communicative welfare.

【 授权许可】

CC BY