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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 ...
Esther Janse, Antje Meyer, Zeshu Shao
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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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Verbal fluency and risk of dementia [PDF]
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2019 ObjectiveVerbal fluency is a common neuropsychological test that is impaired in dementia. We test whether verbal fluency is a prospective risk factor for incident dementia, cognitive impairment not dementia (CIND), and conversion from CIND to dementia.MethodsParticipants (N = 18 189) from the Health and Retirement Study were administered a standard ...
Antonio Terracciano +2 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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Math and verbal fluency across adulthood provide insights into aging and individual differences [PDF]
Scientific ReportsLife expectancy is increasing, leading to a growing population of older adults. Although cognitive functions decline with age, mathematical functioning in later adulthood has received relatively limited research attention.
Yarden Gliksman +2 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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Striatal volume is related to phonemic verbal fluency but not to semantic or alternating verbal fluency in early Parkinson’s disease [PDF]
Journal of Neural Transmission, 2013 Verbal fluency impairments are frequent in Parkinson's disease (PD) and they may be present already at early stages. Semantic fluency impairment is associated with Parkinson's disease dementia and temporal, frontal and cerebellar cortical changes. Few studies have addressed cerebral structural correlates of different verbal fluency tasks in early stage
Juha Rinne +2 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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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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