Language in the Preclinical Stage of Alzheimer's Disease. Content and Complexity in Biographic Interviews of the ILSE Study
B Wendelstein, E Felder, J Schröder · Klinische Neurophysiologie · 2010 · Heft 03
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Introduction: The changes caused by Alzheimer's disease (AD) include the whole range of cognitive abilities. Particularly in the field of language abilities there is a considerable decrease during the course of the disease. Nearly all patients with AD show speech disorders. These are in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or in the beginning of AD barely detectable with the common language tests. Therefore the investigation of natural verbal language, which makes high demands on cognitive abilities, is obvious. Already in the beginning of an AD there are changes in spoken language. Narrations of patient become poor…