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In his book how to prevent dementia, neurologist, neuropsychiatrist, author and professor Dr. Richard Restak also included that four warning signs from dementia contain what he calls the four.
These are amnesia (forgetting of things), agnosia or “an impairment of the correct understanding of information that can be combined by the senses of seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting”, apraxia or difficulties to summarize their thoughts and movements in the correct order and aphasia.
The last one is not to understand, find or use the right words. “Hiking speech” was also associated with the disease.
In a paper published in the magazine, neuropsychology and cognition, the connection between word-finding difficulty (WfD) and cognitive impairment, which is often considered a forerunner of dementia, was examined.
Its results can be somewhat calming for people who often forget the right word.
What is “Word-Finding difficult” (WfD)?
The term refers to the “tongue tip”, which happens when you know what you want to say, but forget the exact word or the exact phrase to express it.
In the work of 2023, scientists found that the WFD increased with age.
However, you did not say that it occasionally said to forget the word for an object, means that you have early dementia.
This may be a normal part of aging, it suggests (in fact, Dr. Restak wrote: “Neither amnesia nor aphasia in their milder forms are always abnormal”).
The researchers asked 125 participants aged 18 to 90 to carry out interference tests for pictures. These combine contradictory words and images (in this case that look at a picture while headphones play a different word) that the participants should ask for dismantling.
Then they were asked to describe complex images for one minute.
Older people took longer to find the right word for the right picture. However, this was not associated with an increased cognitive decline in this study. The slow speaking seemed to be more important.
“Instead, how quickly the participants were able to name pictures, they predicted how quickly they generally spoke, and both were connected to the executive function.” Say neuroscience messages.
In other words, it is not as long as long people have made to find a word; Her speech was so fluent and quick.
Dr. Jed Meltzer, the main author of the study, said: “Our results show that changes in general speech speed can reflect changes in the brain.”
Does that mean that slow speakers definitely have dementia?
No. This association needs more research, say the scientists; It is only associated with the cognitive decline associated with dementia.
It is not proof of dementia on and in itself.
Nevertheless, Dr. Meltzer help with the decisive early diagnosis.
“The [study] indicates that speaking speed should be tested within the framework of cognitive standard evaluations in order to help clinicians to recognize the cognitive decline faster and to help older adults to support their health of the brain in old age, ”he told neuroscience news.
