The Impact of Neighborhood‐Level Area Deprivation on Picture Naming Ability and Decline in Alzheimer’s Disease
Tifani Biro, Roy Hamilton · 2025
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Where a patient lives may shape how fast language fades in Alzheimer disease, on top of the disease itself. Tifani Biro and Roy Hamilton studied that link in this 2025 paper using records from a university disease database. Naming pictures is a common test of language skill, and it often drops early in the illness.
Home addresses were turned into ranked scores for how deprived each area was. The team then tracked naming scores over time for patients and for healthy adults. Past work hints that wealth and schooling can soften decline, but area-level hardship is less studied. The findings matter for speech-based early detection tools, which could misread patients if they ignore the effects of poverty on language.
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| CREATOR | Tifani Biro, Roy Hamilton |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |