My first “real” symptom of multiple sclerosis (MS) involved my speech ... although now it is dysarthria, sometimes known as “drunk speech.” The feeling of “waves” that used to alert ...

The symptoms of MS vary widely in location and severity ... and depression. Less common are dysarthria, neuritic pain, vertigo, ataxia, cognitive dysfunction, and tremor. Rare symptoms are hearing ...

This article discusses the pathophysiology of PD as it relates to speech disorders and considers nonpharmaceutical therapeutic options for hypokinetic dysarthria. The most common symptom of ...

Dysarthria and anarthria may also occur as a result of neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis and stroke, causing a decline in speaking abilities after a person already had attained ...

However, the ability to communicate can be compromised by neural and muscle damage, leading to a condition called dysarthria, which causes speech to become slow, slurred and hard to understand.