Early research ties word-finding difficulty (WFD) to the same neural highways that falter in Alzheimer’s disease.

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 ...

Those of us who have cared for someone with Alzheimer's disease know all too well the pain of trying to communicate with someone who is losing their language abilities. People with the disease tend to ...

The human voice represents one of our most complex biological achievements—a sophisticated interplay between brain, nerves, muscles, and breath that produces the nuanced sounds of human speech. As ...

Accents center on the pronunciation of words, while dialects encompass pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Here, the subjects of Grant Wood's American Gothic channel speaking styles popular in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A speech rate of less than 137 words per minute was tied to higher risk for overt hepatic encephalopathy. Speech ...

The West African instrument dùndún is also known as “talking drum” because players can match the pitch and rhythm of speech patterns on it. A new study reveals just how closely dùndún players match ...