Details of the talk:Time: 1/27/2007, 2:00PM
Place: UTC 3.110
Speaker: Teh-Sheng Ma (馬德生)
Host: Sheng-Cheng Huang (黃聖程)
Title:
Listening to what you cannot hear: from Parkinson's Disease to Rat Ultrasound Vocalization
Abstract:
Parkinson's Disease is a neurodegenerative disease that targets a certain type of neurons in the human brain. The death of these neurons result in the lost of muscle coordination in the human body. Tremors during hand movements are the most obvious symptoms in Parkinson's patients. Other symptoms like speech loss also brings detriments to the social life of patients.
Unlike other disease that can be treated with medicine, Parkinson's Disease is a progressive disease that torments patients for their remaining days. Dreaded by this irreversible result, researchers have been trying to find ways to relieve the symptoms or early detect this deadly disease.
My talk will be focused on the rat vocalization model that I have developed to help tackle this issue. In this talk, you will learn about the most recent clinical therapy for speech loss in Parkinson's patients and also how the rat model parallels the speech loss in human patients. You will also learn why patients are not aware of their speech loss and how this vocalization model might become an early detector for future Parkinson's Disease translational studies.
