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).

A NEW STRAIN OF TRANSMISSIBLE LEUCEMIA IN FOWLS (STRAIN H).

1. A new strain of fowl leucosis has been transmitted through twelve generations of fowls. 2.