Verbal Fluency in Metabolic Syndrome [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2022 Metabolic syndrome (MetS) or otherwise insulin resistance (IR) is described as a cluster of several commonly occurring disorders, including abdominal obesity; lipids disorders, such as hypertriglyceridemia; and low levels of high-density-lipoprotein ...
Marcin Gierach +2 more
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What do verbal fluency tasks measure? Predictors of verbal fluency performance in older adults [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 The study examined the contributions of verbal ability and executive control to verbal fluency performance in older adults (n=82). Verbal fluency was assessed in letter and category fluency tasks, and performance on these tasks was related to indicators ...
Zeshu eShao +6 more
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Non-Verbal and Verbal Fluency in Prodromal Huntington's Disease [PDF]
Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra, 2015 Background: This study examines non-verbal (design) and verbal (phonemic and semantic) fluency in prodromal Huntington's disease (HD). An accumulating body of research indicates subtle deficits in cognitive functioning among prodromal mutation carriers ...
Tarja-Brita Robins Wahlin +3 more
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Can Phonemic Verbal Fluency Be Used to Predict Alzheimer’s Disease? [PDF]
NeuroSciBackground: Among the cognitive markers, the deterioration of semantic and phonemic verbal fluency seems to be an early indicator of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
Sara García-González
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Effects of Bipolar Disorder on the Verbal Fluency Skills of Native Speakers [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground/Objectives: Bipolar disorder (BD) is a chronic psychiatric condition characterized by episodes of mania, hypomania, and depression. Due to the cognitive impairments associated with BD, patients frequently experience difficulties in attention ...
Bertuğ Sakın +5 more
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Network dysfunction underlying verbal fluency deficits in newly diagnosed epilepsy: a resting-state fMRI functional connectivity study [PDF]
BMC MedicineBackground Verbal fluency impairment is a common cognitive deficit in epilepsy that further increases the burden of the disease. Current anti-seizure medications mainly target seizure control but rarely improve cognition and may even worsen it in the ...
Fangzhou Liu +8 more
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Unique signatures in verbal fluency task performance in schizophrenia and depression [PDF]
Schizophrenia Research: CognitionBackground: Verbal fluency tasks reveal consistent impairments among individuals with schizophrenia (SSD) and shed valuable insight on semantic and cognitive processing. However, comparisons with other psychiatric groups remain limited. Doing so may help
Sunghye Cho +7 more
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Brain Sciences, 2023 Individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) struggle with impaired verbal fluency as an executive function. The left and right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) and the right inferior frontal gurus (IFG), which show reduced ...
Vahid Nejati, Reza Estaji, Zahra Helisaz
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Association between psychosocial and functional factors and language and verbal fluency performance in older adults [PDF]
Revista CEFAC, 2022 Purpose: to identify psychosocial and functional factors associated with language and verbal fluency performance in older adults. Methods: a study conducted with 149 older adults registered in a primary health care service in a city in inland São Paulo.
Helen Capeleto Francisco +7 more
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Verbal fluency - semantic and phonemic [PDF]
Revista Română de Terapia Tulburărilor de Limbaj şi Comunicare, 2018 BODEA HAȚEGAN, Carolina
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