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Effects of Bipolar Disorder on the Verbal Fluency Skills of Native Speakers. [PDF]

open access: yesBrain Sci
Background/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 ...
Sakın B   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Sex differences in verbal fluency: the role of strategies and instructions [PDF]

open access: yesCognitive Processing, 2017
Sex differences in verbal fluency performance and strategies are highly controversial, nevertheless suggesting a slight female advantage at least for phonemic fluency. A tendency of increased clustering of words into phonemic and semantic subcategories in men and increased switching between those categories in women has been suggested. In spatial tasks,
Andrea Scheuringer   +2 more
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Cognitive compensatory mechanisms in normal aging: a study on verbal fluency and the contribution of other cognitive functions

open access: greenAging, 2019
Verbal fluency has been widely studied in cognitive aging. However, compensatory mechanisms that maintain its optimal performance with increasing age are not completely understood.
Lissett Gonzalez‐Burgos   +4 more
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Network dysfunction underlying verbal fluency deficits in newly diagnosed epilepsy: a resting-state fMRI functional connectivity study. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Med
Background 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 ...
Liu F   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Verbal memory and verbal fluency in adolescents with schizophrenia spectrum disorders [PDF]

open access: yesPsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 2008
Aim:  Although impaired verbal memory and verbal fluency are frequently found in adults with schizophrenia, there has been a paucity of studies investigating adolescents with schizophrenia. Thus, the aim of the present study was to investigate the main subcomponents of verbal memory and verbal fluency in adolescents with schizophrenia spectrum ...
Nils Inge Landrø, Thor Ueland
exaly   +3 more sources

Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Improves Verbal Fluency in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

open access: yesBrain 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
doaj   +1 more source

Sex/Gender Differences in Verbal Fluency and Verbal-Episodic Memory: A Meta-Analysis

open access: yesPerspectives on Psychological Science, 2022
Women are thought to fare better in verbal abilities, especially in verbal-fluency and verbal-memory tasks. However, the last meta-analysis on sex/gender differences in verbal fluency dates from 1988.
M. Hirnstein   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Verbal fluency tests assess global cognitive status but have limited diagnostic differentiation: evidence from a large-scale examination of six neurodegenerative diseases

open access: yesmedRxiv, 2022
Objective: Verbal fluency is clinically widely used but its utility in differentiating between neurodegenerative dementias and progressive aphasias, and from healthy controls, remains unclear. We assessed whether the total number of words produced, their
S. Henderson   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Verbal fluency difficulties in aphasia: A combination of lexical and executive control deficits

open access: yesInternational journal of language and communication disorders, 2022
Background Verbal fluency tasks are routinely used in clinical assessment and research studies of aphasia. People with aphasia produce fewer items in verbal fluency tasks. It remains unclear if their output is limited solely by their lexical difficulties
A. Bose   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Association Between Purpose/Meaning in Life and Verbal Fluency and Episodic Memory: A Meta-Analysis of >140,000 Participants from up to 32 Countries

open access: yesInternational Psychogeriatrics, 2021
Objectives: Feelings of purpose and meaning in life are protective against consequential cognitive outcomes, including reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
A. Sutin   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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