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 ...

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 ...

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 ...