Konczak publishes in Journal of Applied Physiology
The paper presents a novel measure, the pressure in the upper airways during phonation, as a potential variable to assess voice disruption in people with laryngeal dystonia.
Jürgen Konczak, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Human Sensorimotor Control (HSC) Lab, is coauthor of a research article titled "Characterization of Upper Esophageal Sphincter Pressures Relative to Vocal Acoustics" in the Journal of Applied Physiology. The first author is Jesse Hoffmeister, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Otolarnygology. The paper presents a novel measure, the pressure in the upper airways during phonation, as a potential variable to assess voice disruption in people with laryngeal dystonia.