Fog of Neuro: Why Speech May Become the Next MRI
Fog of Neuro: Why Speech May Become the Next MRI Speech is a strange medical instrument. It does not look like one. It does not come with a scanner room, a radiology report, or a patient lying very still while a machine complains loudly. It comes out in ordinary life: a story, a pause, a word search, a sentence that loses its thread halfway through. For many neurological conditions, especially rare metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases, that ordinary speech may contain something today’s clinic often misses: the patient’s real cognitive state between appointments. ...