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Dissociating Semantic and Phonemic Search Strategies in the Phonemic Verbal Fluency Task in early Dementia [PDF]

Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: Improving Access, 2021
Effective management of dementia hinges on timely detection and precise diagnosis of the underlying cause of the syndrome at an early mild cognitive impairment (MCI) stage. Verbal fluency tasks are among the most often applied tests for early dementia detection due to their efficiency and ease of use.
Hali Lindsay, Philipp Müller, Nicklas Linz, Radia Zeghari, Mario Magued Mina, Alexandra Konig, Johannes Tröger   +6 more
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Impact of Different Types of Sedentary Behaviour on Cognitive Function in Older Adults: A Systematic Review. [PDF]

Health Promot J Austr
ABSTRACT Issue Addressed Sedentary behaviour (SB) is a relevant determinant of health in ageing, yet its effects on cognitive function remain inconclusive. The literature often treats SB as a homogeneous exposure, without considering that different sedentary activities may differentially affect cognitive domains.
de Jesus Silva TR, Damião EP, Barbosa VS, de Matos Alcantara L, Dos Santos RG, Junior JSV.   +5 more
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Deep Brain Stimulation of Caudal Zona Incerta for Parkinson's Disease: One‐Year Follow‐Up and Electric Field Simulations

Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, EarlyView., 2021
Abstract Objective To evaluate the effects of bilateral caudal zona incerta (cZi) deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson's disease (PD) one year after surgery and to create anatomical improvement maps based on patient‐specific simulation of the electric field.
Rasmus Stenmark Persson, Teresa Nordin, Gun‐Marie Hariz, Karin Wårdell, Lars Forsgren, Marwan Hariz, Patric Blomstedt   +6 more
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Alternate fluency in Parkinson's disease: A machine learning analysis.

PLoS ONE, 2022
ObjectiveThe aim of the present study was to investigate whether patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD) had changes in their level of performance in extra-dimensional shifting by implementing a novel analysis method, utilizing the new alternate phonemic ...
Roberta Ferrucci, Francesca Mameli, Fabiana Ruggiero, Mariella Reitano, Mario Miccoli, Angelo Gemignani, Ciro Conversano, Michelangelo Dini, Stefano Zago, Silvie Piacentini, Barbara Poletti, Alberto Priori, Graziella Orrù   +12 more
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Verbal fluency in children with intellectual disability: Influence of basic executive components [PDF]

Specijalna Edukacija i Rehabilitacija, 2014
Phonemic and semantic fluency tasks are frequently used to differentiate executive control roles and the integrity of lexical-semantic representation. The main goal of this study is to determine the influence of basic executive components on phonemic and
Gligorović Milica, Buha Nataša
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Verbal fluency performance across different neurological disorders: A preliminary investigation [PDF]

Specijalna Edukacija i Rehabilitacija
Introduction. Language disorders can arise as a consequence of various neurological conditions, affecting communication and cognitive functioning. Aim.
Paunović Verica M., Vuković Mile G.
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Effects of Age, Gender and Education on Phonemic and Semantic Verbal Fluency

Turkish Journal of Psychiatry, 2021
The aim of this study was to obtain normative data for Verbal Fluency Test and investigate the effects of age, gender, and education on verbal fluency in native Turkish-speaking individuals.A pilot study was conducted to determine 3 letters with differing levels of difficulty for completing the phonemic fluency task. First names and animals were chosen
Özlem Erden, Aki, Burcu, Alkan, Talat, Demirsöz, Berge, Velibaşoğlu, Tuğba, Taşdemir, Serap Piri, Erbaş, Kerim, Selvi, İclal, Ergenç, Elif, Barişkin, Pınar, Özdemir, Başaran, Demir   +10 more
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Cognitive Processes Underlying Verbal Fluency in Multiple Sclerosis

Frontiers in Neurology, 2021
Background: Verbal fluency (VF) has been associated with several cognitive functions, but the cognitive processes underlying verbal fluency deficits in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) are controversial.
Alfonso Delgado-Álvarez, Jordi A. Matias-Guiu, Cristina Delgado-Alonso, Laura Hernández-Lorenzo, Ana Cortés-Martínez, Lucía Vidorreta, Paloma Montero-Escribano, Vanesa Pytel, Jorge Matias-Guiu   +8 more
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Increased subcortical neural activity among HIV+ individuals during a lexical retrieval task

Neurobiology of Disease, 2016
Background: Deficits in lexical retrieval, present in approximately 40% of HIV+ patients, are thought to reflect disruptions to frontal–striatal functions and may worsen with immunosuppression.
April D. Thames, Philip Sayegh, Kevin Terashima, Jessica M. Foley, Andrew Cho, Alyssa Arentoft, Charles H. Hinkin, Susan Y. Bookheimer   +7 more
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A Comparison of Phonemic, Semantic, and Alternating Word Fluency in Parkinson's Disease [PDF]

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 1999
Word fluency in 45 medicated non-demented Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and 45 normal control subjects was studied with a Phonemic Word Fluency (PWF) task using the letters F, A, and S, a Semantic Word Fluency (SWF) task using the categories animals, boys' names, and states, and an Alternating Word Fluency (AWF) task requiring the person to ...
R F, Zec, E S, Landreth, S, Fritz, E, Grames, A, Hasara, W, Fraizer, J, Belman, S, Wainman, M, McCool, C, O'Connell, R, Harris, R, Robbs, R, Elble, B, Manyam   +13 more
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