Speech in Alzheimer's Disease: Can Temporal and Acoustic Parameters Discriminate Dementia?

Discussion: These measures offer a sensitive method of assessing spontaneous speech output in AD, and they discriminate well between people with AD and healthy older adults. This method of evaluation is a promising tool for AD diagnosis and prognosis, and it could be used as a dependent measure in clinical trials. © 2014 S. Karger AG, Basel. PMID: 24481220 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders - February 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord Source Type: research