Introduction: The neuropsychological profile of people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
and Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia includes a history of decline in memory and other …

Abstract The Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention is a longitudinal observational
cohort study enriched with persons with a parental history (PH) of probable Alzheimer's …

Purpose: Dementia from Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized primarily by a significant
decline in memory abilities; however, language abilities are also commonly affected and …

Background: The discovery of early, non-invasive biomarkers for the identification of
“preclinical” or “pre-symptomatic” Alzheimer's disease and other dementias is a key issue in …

The language changes that occur over the course of Alzheimer's disease (AD) can impact
communication abilities and have profound functional consequences. Picture description …

Speech-language pathologists routinely use picture description tasks to assess expository
discourse in clients with disorders such as aphasia and dementia. One picture description …

Changes to everyday spoken language (“connected language”) are evident in persons with
AD dementia, yet little is known about when these changes are first detectable on the …

Linguistic measures in spontaneous speech have shown promise in the early detection of
Alzheimer's disease (AD), but it remains unknown which specific linguistic variables show …

Background: Language production deficits occur early in the course of Alzheimer's disease
(AD); however, only a few studies have focused on language network's functional …

Purpose Evidence exists that changes in language performance may be an early indicator of
mild cognitive impairment (MCI), often a harbinger of dementing disease. The purpose of …