Language offers privileged insights into brain health. For example, we have seen that specific linguistic alterations contribute to the detection and characterization of Alzheimer’s disease dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and epilepsy. Recently, the clinical potential of language analysis has been bolstered by computerized tools, which reveal subtle markers of these diseases in natural discourse via objective, automated, low-cost tests. Language assessments have thus become vital to the contemporary study of brain disorders.
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