The Coordination of Breathing and Swallowing Across the Human Lifespan: Implications for Neural Control

Our understanding of the neural control of breathing-swallowing coordination (BSC) is largely unclear. Although brainstem control is undoubtedly predominant, this research investigated the hypothesis that the cortex becomes increasingly influential in BSC between birth and adulthood. The main paradi...

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Main Author: Kelly, Bronwen Noreen
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Communication Disorders 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1295