Development of Thai Picture Description Task for Alzheimer's Screening using Part-of-Speech Tagging.

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) are among the most common health conditions in elderly patients. Currently, methods to diagnose AD and MCI are lengthy, costly and require specialized staff to operate. A picture description task was developed to speed up the diagnosis.

Thammasat-NECTEC-Chula's Thai Language and Cognition Assessment (TLCA): The Thai Alzheimer's and Mild Cognitive Impairment Screening Test.

Thammasat-NECTEC-Chula's Thai Language and Cognition Assessment (TLCA) is a cognitive paper-based test consisting of 21 tasks that cover 3 domains: memory, language, and other cognitive abilities. The TLCA follows some aspects of the existing tests (Thai Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised (Thai-ACE-R) and the Thai Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test (Thai-MoCA)) and many parts were reconstructed to be more adapted to the Thai culture. Data obtained from the test will be able to precisely distinguish between patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), Alzheimer's Disease (AD), and Normal healthy Controls (NC).

Classification of Depression and Other Psychiatric Conditions Using Speech Features Extracted from a Thai Psychiatric and Verbal Screening Test.

Depression is a common and serious mental illness which negatively affects daily functioning. To prevent the progression of the illness into severe or long-term consequences, early diagnosis is crucial. We developed an automated speech feature analysis application for depression and other psychiatric disorders derived from a developed Thai psychiatric and verbal screening test.

Development of Computerized Tool for Screening Thai Children at Risk for Learning Disabilities.

A computerized version of "Noo-Khor-Arn" `May I read?', a paper-based screening test for Thai children at risk with Learning Disability (LD), was developed and some core ideas of development were given in details. Six test categories with 23 subtests were conducted on 110 Thai children aged between 7-12 years old (Mean = 7.94, SD = 1.