Conversational interaction in dementia

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Turn taking during conversational interaction in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia

• IRAS ID

  124708

• Contact name

  Manuela Bung

• Contact email

  mb4g12@soton.ac.uk

• Research summary

  The purpose of this research is to identify patterns of language use in conversational interactions that are characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) including its sub-groups: progressive non-fluent aphasia (PNFA), semantic dementia (SD) and behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). It is well known that all of these dementia groups show progressive as well as a range of other behaviours such as disinhibited, withdrawn or repetitive speech output. We hypothesise that features specific to conversational speech will reveal parameters that can differentiate the groups early in the onset of dementia.

• REC name

  London - Queen Square Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  13/LO/1301

• Date of REC Opinion

  12 Dec 2013

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion