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Quantitative EEG and Verbal Fluency in DBS Patients: Comparison of Stimulator-On and -Off Conditions
Frontiers in Neurology, 2019 Introduction: Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN-DBS) ameliorates motor function in patients with Parkinson's disease and allows reducing dopaminergic therapy.
Florian Hatz +5 more
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A cross-linguistic comparison of category verbal fluency test (ANIMALS): a systematic review.
Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2019 BACKGROUND Cross-linguistic information about performance in neuropsychological verbal tests is extremely scarce. It has been suggested that verbal fluency test using animal fluency test is one of the few tests fulfilling the fundamental criteria ...
A. Ardila
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Dementia & NeuropsychologiaObjective: Verbal fluency tests are widely used for the assessment of executive functions. However, traditional versions of the test depend on several cognitive factors beyond these components.
Jonas Jardim de Paula +2 more
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South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 1999 This study investigated the semantic verbal fluency (VF) abilities of non-neurologically impaired (NNI) Zulu speaking subjects in order to obtain normative data for this population.
Terri-Leigh Sperinck, Janet de Picciotto
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Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2019 The relationship of verbal fluency to executive functions (EFs) remains somewhat unclear. Verbal fluency is sometimes considered an EF ability, but is not often included in the same models as other well-studied EFs (inhibition, shifting, and working ...
D. Gustavson +8 more
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Semantic and Categorical Verbal Fluency: An Indicator of Progression of Cognitive Decline with Aging
Annals of Indian PsychiatryBackground: Changes in cognitive functioning with the progression of age have been suggested as indicator of potential degenerative disorders in older adults.
Susmita Halder +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Verbal fluency refers to the ability to generate words quickly and efficiently according to predefined phonological or semantic criteria. Deficits in verbal fluency limit patients’ ability to communicate effectively and to function well in social setups.
Tal Blecher +4 more
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Clustering and Switching Strategies in Verbal Fluency Tasks: Comparison between Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Healthy Controls [PDF]
Journal of Rehabilitation Sciences and Research, 2019 Background: Recent studies have demonstrated that ALS patients suffer from cognitive and language impairments. One of the most striking and consistent cognitive dysfunctions in these patients is verbal fluency deficits.
Najme Mardani +3 more
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Verbal fluency as a possible predictor for psychosis
European Psychiatry, 2010 AbstractBackgroundNeurocognitive abnormalities are prevalent in both first episode schizophrenia patients and in ultra high risk (UHR) patients.AimTo compare verbal fluency performance at baseline in UHR in patients that did and did not make the transition to psychosis.MethodBaseline verbal fluency performance in UHR-patients (n = 47) was compared to ...
Becker, H. E. +5 more
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Verbal Fluency as a Screening Tool for Mild Cognitive Impairment
International Psychogeriatrics, 2019 Objectives: The goal of this study was to evaluate the ability of semantic (animal naming) and phonemic (FAS) fluency in their ability to discriminate between normal aging, amnestic-Mild Cognitive Impairment (a-MCI), and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Design:
M. McDonnell +7 more
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