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Melody Pattison

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Lecturer in Linguistics, Cardiff University

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January 26, 2026

Terry Pratchett’s novels may have held clues to his dementia a decade before diagnosis, our new study suggests

Thom Wilcockson, Loughborough University; Ahmet Begde, University of Oxford, and Melody Pattison, Cardiff University

The author’s vocabulary narrowed a decade before diagnosis – a clue that could transform early dementia detection.

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