Background In the past few years there has been a growing interest in the employment of
verbal productions as digital biomarkers, namely objective, quantifiable behavioural data …

Background: The discovery of early, non-invasive biomarkers for the identification of
“preclinical” or “pre-symptomatic” Alzheimer's disease and other dementias is a key issue in …

Almost 50 million people are living with dementia in 2018 worldwide, and the number will
double every 20 years. The effectiveness of existing pharmacologic treatments for the …

A timely diagnosis of the prodromal stages of dementia remains a big challenge for
healthcare systems: many assessment tools have been proposed over recent years, but the …

The world population is ageing at a frantic pace. According to the World Health
Organization, one in six people will cross the 60-year threshold by 2030, and the proportion …

Introduction: Life expectancy has been increasing in recent decades. Therefore, it is
important to understand the functional changes during healthy ageing. Most research has …

Abstract Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology has the potential to provide a non-
invasive, cost-effective method using a timely intervention for detecting early-stage language …

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a pervasive neurodegenerative disease that affects millions
worldwide and is most prominently associated with broad cognitive decline, including …

Given the limited success of medication in reversing the effects of Alzheimer's and other
dementias, a lot of the neuroscience research has been focused on early detection, in order …

Over the last decades, a growing body of linguistic studies have been devoted to the clinical
domain (Perkins, 2011), while the amount of experimental linguistic research focusing on …