Public Health and Health Professions
Hegland Lab
Led by Karen W Hegland · Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
What we study
The Hegland Lab studies why swallowing, speech and voice break down in Parkinson's disease, and how deep brain stimulation affects the larynx (voice box) and related behaviors.
What working here is like
- Clinical
- Human participants
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Mechanisms of Impaired Swallowing, Speech and Voice in Parkinson’s Disease
Investigating how Parkinson's disease affects swallowing, speech, and voice.
Effects of deep brain stimulation (DBS) on laryngeal function and associated behaviors in Parkinson Disease
Examining how deep brain stimulation impacts laryngeal function in Parkinson's patients.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Allostatic Load and Healthcare Access Among Stroke Survivors
2026 · Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
- Safe to Swallow: Predictors of Swallowing Outcomes after Deep Brain Stimulation for Dystonia (S11.007)
2026 · Neurology
Studies swallowing safety after brain stimulation for neck stiffness.
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- Sequential pathway analysis of sex differences in deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease
2026 · Women s Health
Looks at why women with Parkinson's are less likely to get brain stimulation.
- Physiologic Adaptations to Modifying Resistive Load and Time Under Tension During Expiratory Muscle Strength Training
2026 · Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
Tests how changing resistance and time in breathing exercises affects strength.
- Aphasia among Medicare fee for service beneficiaries: initial encounter for services and discharge disposition
2026 · Aphasiology
Tracks where stroke patients get care and where they go after treatment.
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