Researchers are increasingly finding that subtle shifts in everyday conversation can flag trouble in the brain long before classic memory problems appear. Instead of relying only on paper-and-pencil ...

To explore why that is, researchers at the University of Toronto asked 125 healthy adults, between the ages of 18 and 90, to describe a scene in detail. Related: 5 Early, Speech-Related Signs You're ...

Speech rate and word-finding difficulties, including pausing and use of fillers such as “um” and “uh,” were associated with changes in executive function across the adult lifespan in a new study. Jed ...

Claire Lancaster receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to investigate speech-based markers of neurodegenerative disease. Alice ...