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Adolfo M. García, PhD
Neuroscientist
If we are to reduce the burden of dementia, we must embrace a pluralistic philosophy for research, clinical, and awareness-raising activities.
Current Work
Adolfo is a cognitive neuroscientist who specializes in language and interpersonal communication.
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Vision
Dementia is a multidetermined phenomenon. Therefore, no single approach will hold the key to its full understanding and management. If we are to reduce the burden of dementia, we must embrace a pluralistic philosophy for research, clinical, and awareness-raising activities.
Strategy
Adolfo’s research combines neurolinguistic experiments, formal language assessments, and natural speech analysis to characterize and discriminate among different neurodegenerative diseases. Verbal skills are variously vulnerable to neurodegeneration and understanding their disturbances can inform diagnostic, prognostic, and monitoring procedures.
Impact
Adolfo’s goal as an Atlantic Fellow is to optimize current language-oriented assessments of neurodegeneration. By identifying automated, affordable, and scalable linguistic markers of neurodegenerative diseases, he aims to promote more equitable clinical opportunities for patients in Latin America and beyond.
Motivation
Neurodegeneration and dementia are escalating across Latin America. Yet, gold-standard diagnostic techniques are often unavailable or unaffordable for most patients. Cutting-edge neurolinguistic assessments can offer sensitive, affordable, non-invasive, and ecological alternatives to discriminate among neurodegenerative diseases and track symptom severity.
Education & Experience
Adolfo specializes in the neuroscience of language and social interaction. He serves as Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Center (Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina), Language Science Director at Redenlab (Australia), Director of the Masters in Language and Cognition at UNCuyo (Argentina), and Associate Researcher at USACH (Chile). His training included research stays at New York University and Rice University (United States), as well as postdoc at the Institute of Cognitive Neurology (Argentina). He has published over 200 scientific works and offered more than 250 presentations at academic meetings. He also works actively in science dissemination activities and has received numerous scientific awards.
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