The impact of white matter hyperintensities on speech perception.
Arianna Di StadioDaniela MessineoMassimo RalliDalila RoccamatisiAngela MusacchioGiampietro RicciAntonio GrecoPublished in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2020)
Multiple WMHs in the brain can worsen word recognition in patients with normal auditory threshold; this may be related to the impact that these lesions have on the memory ability. Spread of lesions into the brain might reduce the brain capacity to remember words, despite the sound is correctly perceived by the ear.