Common Speech Pattern Could Be a Sign of Alzheimer’s, Scientists Say |
Common Speech Pattern Could Be a Sign of Alzheimer’s, Scientists Say
Research warns of pausing in sentences.
BY MOSES JEANFRANCOIS, NEWS WRITER @MOSESJEANS
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Scientists say that pauses in your sentences and trains of thought could reveal a much larger sign of dementia.
New research from Baycrest, the University of Toronto, and York University monitored nearly 250 older adults and collected their speech through picture description tasks. Over 700 speech features were extracted during the study, including pauses like “um,” and “uh,”........