{"id":226043,"date":"2025-11-27T17:09:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T23:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/scientists-discover-speech-trait-that-foreshadows-cognitive-decline"},"modified":"2025-11-27T17:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T23:09:17","slug":"scientists-discover-speech-trait-that-foreshadows-cognitive-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/scientists-discover-speech-trait-that-foreshadows-cognitive-decline","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover Speech Trait That Foreshadows Cognitive Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-speech-trait-that-foreshadows-cognitive-decline2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early signs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-signal-of-future-alzheimers-could-be-hidden-in-the-way-you-speak\">may be hidden<\/a> in the way a person speaks, but it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC10578227\/\">not yet clear<\/a> which details of our diction are most critical for diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13825585.2024.2315774\">study from 2023<\/a> suggests that as we age, <i>how<\/i> we say something may matter more than <i>what<\/i> we say. Researchers at the University of Toronto think the pace of everyday speech may be a better indicator of cognitive decline than difficulty finding a word.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur results indicate that changes in general talking speed may reflect changes in the brain,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/baycrestfoundation.org\/articles\/research\/talking-faster-is-linked-to-better-brain-health\/\">said<\/a> cognitive neuroscientist Jed Meltzer when the research was published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early signs of Alzheimer\u2019s disease may be hidden in the way a person speaks, but it\u2019s not yet clear which details of our diction are most critical for diagnosis. A study from 2023 suggests that as we age, how we say something may matter more than what we say. Researchers at the University of Toronto [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226043","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=226043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}