Experimental automated system identifies Parkinson’s disease in 45 seconds with 80% accuracy
(in Spanish)
It has been established that the brain networks affected in this disorder, characterized by tremors, slowness and rigidity, not only play a crucial role in movement, but also in cognitive functions, particularly in language. You can read the full article, in Spanish, here. Hoy se sabe que las redes cerebrales que se afectan en este […]
Language as a window into Parkinson’s disease
Estela, Klaus, and Miloslav are elderly adults from the outskirts of Medellín, Berlin, and Prague, respectively. Along with more than six million people, they suffer from Parkinson’s disease, a brain disorder that progressively disrupts specific brain networks and causes problems with movement—such as shaking, stiffness, and difficulty with walking—as well as varied cognitive symptoms, such […]
What can neurolinguistics bring to clinic practice? (in Spanish)
A lateral thinking exercise applied to language in Parkinson’s disease and primary progressive aphasias. A brilliant and innovative exercise to consider in clinical practice. You can read the full article, in Spanish, here. Un ejercicio de pensamiento lateral aplicado al lenguaje en la enfermedad de Parkinson y las afasias progresivas primarias. Un ejercicio brillante e […]
Fast, accurate and inexpensive test to detect Parkinson’s in early stages (in Spanish)
It is an advance of Argentine scientists; it is a linguistic test based on the reading of a story with a high number of action verbs; it has an 84% accuracy rate in the classification of patients without cognitive impairment. You can read the full article, in Spanish, here. Es un avance de científicos argentinos; […]
Raúl Echegoyen
Raúl Echegoyen holds an MBA from the University of Cambridge (UK). He is a co-founder and the CEO of Sigmind, a start-up leveraging neuroscience and artificial intelligence to improve the detection and monitoring of mental health disorders. With a background in Materials Engineering (M.Sc.Eng), he previously managed both technical and business development projects in the […]
Facundo Carrillo
Facundo Carrillo earned his Ph. D. in Computer Science (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina). He holds the chair of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the Master’s in Data Science at Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina), and he serves as Assistant Researcher at CONICET, in a joint appointment with the Institute of Computer Science at Universidad […]
Adolfo M. García
Adolfo García, Ph.D., specializes in the neuroscience of language and communication. He serves as Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Center (Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina), Senior Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute (University of California, San Francisco), Associate Researcher at Universidad de Santiago de Chile, honorary member of the Center of Cognitive Neuroscience […]
