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Research Tuesday: Swallowing-related fatigue is a notable and unique complication of stroke, particularly among individuals with brainstem involvement.

Read this article in AJSLP to learn how you can identify swallowing-related fatigue during dysphagia assessments: https://at.asha.org/11G

In a population-based longitudinal cohort of cognitively normal older adults, poorer speech-in-noise performance—a measure of central auditory processing—was associated with faster cortical thinning in temporoparietal regions involved in speech comprehension. Peripheral hearing loss and hearing aid use were not significantly associated with longitudinal neurostructural decline or cognitive change.

These findings suggest that impaired speech-in-noise ability may serve as an early behavioral marker of neural vulnerability and may precede detectable cognitive decline in aging populations.

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