This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $617,689 over a 5-year period from Jun 1, 2024 to May 31, 2029 to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) to investigate the role of paralaryngeal-respiratory spatiotemporal patterns in patients with primary muscle tension dysphonia (PMTD), a functional voice disorder.
The research aims to compare paralaryngeal-respiratory coordination in PMTD patients versus healthy controls, correlate paralaryngeal-respiratory patterns to standard voice metrics in PMTD, and characterize effects of increased vocal demands on laryngeal-respiratory patterns in PMTD. The project will utilize motion capture technology to quantify paralaryngeal and respiratory movement kinematics. UTD has sub-awarded $30,630 to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to assist with subject recruitment, data analysis, and manuscript preparation.
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