Parkinson's disease and other pathologies related to the brain could be detected early with simple tests that evaluate the relationship between brain activity, understanding and expression of sentences related to body movements.
The study, published in the journal Cognition , presents the results of an experiment in which the responses in the language of healthy people and of people with Parkinson's disease were compared, demonstrating that through a series of simple tests it could be detected early. and other neurodegenerative diseases when symptoms have not yet manifested .
They discovered that the meeting point where the “dialogue” between motor processes and action language (“clapping”, “grabbing”, etc.) takes place is in the brain and not in the musculoskeletal system as stated in previous studies . Therefore, this study may help in the future in the early detection of brain disorders.
" When we hear words related to actions such as jumping, touching or clapping, there is a dialogue between the motor (related to those actions) and linguistic areas of our brain, " says Agustín Ibáñez, director of the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neurosciences (LPEN) from the Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO) and lead author of the study.
