Speech and language markers of neurodegeneration: a call for global equity

AM García, J de Leon, BL Tee, DE Blasi… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In the field of neurodegeneration, speech and language assessments are useful for
diagnosing aphasic syndromes and for characterizing other disorders. As a complement to …

Bilinguals on the footbridge: the role of foreign-language proficiency in moral decision making

FT Dorfman, B Kogan, P Barttfeld… - … Language and Cognition, 2024 - cambridge.org
Socio-cognitive research on bilinguals points to a moral foreign-language effect (MFLE),
with more utilitarian choices (eg, sacrificing someone to save more people) for moral …

The BrainLat project, a multimodal neuroimaging dataset of neurodegeneration from underrepresented backgrounds

P Prado, V Medel, R Gonzalez-Gomez… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat) has released a unique
multimodal neuroimaging dataset of 780 participants from Latin American. The dataset …

Detecting Parkinson's disease and its cognitive phenotypes via automated semantic analyses of action stories

AM García, D Escobar-Grisales… - npj Parkinson's …, 2022 - nature.com
Action-concept outcomes are useful targets to identify Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and
differentiate between those with and without mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI, PD-nMCI) …

Deep learning and artificial intelligence applied to model speech and language in Parkinson's disease

D Escobar-Grisales, CD Ríos-Urrego… - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder in the
world, and it is characterized by the production of different motor and non-motor symptoms …

The neurocognitive impact of loneliness and social networks on social adaptation

D Franco-O'Byrne, JPM Sepúlveda… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Social adaptation arises from the interaction between the individual and the social
environment. However, little empirical evidence exists regarding the relationship between …

Multivariate word properties in fluency tasks reveal markers of Alzheimer's dementia

FJ Ferrante, J Migeot, A Birba, L Amoruso… - Alzheimer's & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
INTRODUCTION Verbal fluency tasks are common in Alzheimer's disease (AD)
assessments. Yet, standard valid response counts fail to reveal disease‐specific semantic …

Automated free speech analysis reveals distinct markers of Alzheimer's and frontotemporal dementia

P Lopes da Cunha, F Ruiz, F Ferrante, LF Sterpin… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Dementia can disrupt how people experience and describe events as well as their own role
in them. Alzheimer's disease (AD) compromises the processing of entities expressed by …

Neurocognitive correlates of semantic memory navigation in Parkinson's disease

FD Toro-Hernández, J Migeot, N Marchant… - npj Parkinson's …, 2024 - nature.com
Cognitive studies on Parkinson's disease (PD) reveal abnormal semantic processing. Most
research, however, fails to indicate which conceptual properties are most affected and …

Functional connectivity in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

LK Ferreira, O Lindberg, AF Santillo… - Brain and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Functional connectivity (FC)—which reflects relationships between neural
activity in different brain regions—has been used to explore the functional architecture of the …