Patients with non-Alzheimer forms of dementia suffer from major ‘language disorder’. A West Australian study has concluded that television can reestablish patients’ speech functions.
The study conducted on four patients of semantic dementia and primary progressive aphasia. They watched the ABC TV program ‘Australian Story’ for ten weeks. The study established that television might help synaptic complexity in the brain as long as it has a social connection.
The speech pathologist at the neurosciences unit at the WA Department of Health, conducted the pilot program. It says that all passive activities put neurodegenerative persons at greater risk of early-onset dementia. Accessible activities such as knowing each other result in good benefit.
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