Saying "you know" or "um" in conversation is normal. But over time, subtle changes in speech -- like pauses or those ...

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 ...