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1Facultad de Filología, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
Abstract:
In recent years, language has emerged as a central focus of research on Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most prevalent cause of dementia worldwide. Linguistic change is now increasingly regarded not only as a core symptom of AD, but also as a potential early marker of disease onset and progression. In this context, Teruo Yokoi offers a timely and valuable contribution by proposing a systematic account of how, and why, language is preferentially affected in AD. In this brief commentary, I examine the significance of their proposal and advance additional reflections on the role of language in the early diagnosis of AD.
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