Performance of Brazilian children on phonemic and semantic verbal fluency tasks [PDF]
Dementia & Neuropsychologia, 2011 The most used verbal fluency paradigms are semantic and letter fluency tasks. Studies suggest that these paradigms access semantic memory and executive function and are sensitive to frontal lobe disturbances. There are few studies in Brazilian samples on
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10-Hz tACS over the prefrontal cortex improves phonemic fluency in healthy individuals [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Verbal fluency is an important indicator of human verbal ability. Methods to improve fluency is an interesting issue necessitating investigation. To do this, the current study required participants to randomly receive transcranial alternating current ...
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Phonemic fluency in post-ICU patients after severe COVID-19 infection: The role of cognitive reserve [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction Cognitive function may be impaired in COVID-19 patients, especially in executive functions such as phonemic fluency. Among risk factors, inflammation during hospitalization is related with worse cognitive performance in the long term.
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Anatomy of phonemic and semantic fluency: A lesion and disconnectome study in 1231 stroke patients [PDF]
Cortex, 2021 Disturbances of semantic and phonemic fluency are common after brain damage, as a manifestation of language, executive, or memory dysfunction. Lesion-symptom mapping (LSM) studies can provide fundamental insights in shared and distinct anatomical correlates of these cognitive functions and help to understand which patients suffer from these deficits ...
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Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2017 Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) is a surgical technique to treat motor symptoms in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Studies have shown that STN-DBS may cause a decline in verbal fluency performance.
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Utility of a Short-Form Phonemic Fluency Task. [PDF]
Arch Clin NeuropsycholAbstract Objective to establish a proof-of-concept and ascertain the reliability of an abbreviated 30-second (30s) phonemic fluency measure as a cognitive screening tool in older adults. Methods in all, 201 English-speaking ...
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Semantic Fluency and Phonemic Fluency: Regression-based Norms for the Portuguese Population [PDF]
Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2013 The main goal of this study was to produce adjusted normative data for the Portuguese population on two verbal fluency measures: the semantic fluency test (animals category) and the phonemic fluency test (letters M, R, and P). The study included 950 community-dwelling individuals (624 women and 326 men) aged between 18 and 98 (mean = 57.8, SD = 19.0 ...
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Segregated circuits for phonemic and semantic fluency: A novel patient-tailored disconnection study
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2022 Phonemic and semantic fluency are neuropsychological tests widely used to assess patients’ language and executive abilities and are highly sensitive tests in detecting language deficits in glioma patients. However, the networks that are involved in these
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The association of mood disorders and mild cognitive impairment with language performance in older adults: insights from a community healthcare setting [PDF]
Frontiers in DementiaBackgroundMood disorders are frequent in memory clinic populations, but their association with language difficulties in the context of cognitive decline is not well understood.
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Gender- and domain-specific effects of a 6-month multidimensional exercise program on attention and verbal fluency in physically inactive older adults [PDF]
Frontiers in AgingBackgroundRegular physical activity supports cognitive functioning in older age, yet little is known about domain- and gender-specific adaptations following multidimensional training.
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