{"id":207637,"date":"2025-03-02T16:06:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T22:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-discover-that-a-feature-of-speech-warns-you-of-possible-cognitive-impairment"},"modified":"2025-03-02T16:06:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T22:06:48","slug":"scientists-discover-that-a-feature-of-speech-warns-you-of-possible-cognitive-impairment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-discover-that-a-feature-of-speech-warns-you-of-possible-cognitive-impairment","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover that a feature of speech warns you of possible cognitive impairment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-that-a-feature-of-speech-warns-you-of-possible-cognitive-impairment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you hand me the\u2026 you know\u2026 the <em>thingy<\/em>? It\u2019s right there next to that other <em>doohickey!<\/em>\u201d Struggling to find the right word happens to all of us. In fact, it even has a name; <em>lethologica<\/em>, and it tends to become more common as<a href=\"https:\/\/eladelantado.com\/news\/why-we-forget-names-explanation\/\"> we get older<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Forgetting words now and then isn\u2019t a big deal, but if it starts happening frequently, it could be an early sign of changes in the brain linked to Alzheimer\u2019s disease \u2014long before more obvious symptoms appear. But here\u2019s the twist: A recent University of Toronto study suggests that how fast you speak might be a better clue about brain health than the <strong>occasional word mix-up<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCan you hand me the\u2026 you know\u2026 the thingy? It\u2019s right there next to that other doohickey!\u201d Struggling to find the right word happens to all of us. In fact, it even has a name; lethologica, and it tends to become more common as we get older. Forgetting words now and then isn\u2019t a big [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}