Unique signatures in verbal fluency task performance in schizophrenia and depression [PDF]
Background: 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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Emotional Verbal Fluency: A New Task on Emotion and Executive Function Interaction [PDF]
The present study introduces “Emotional Verbal Fluency” as a novel (partially computerized) task, which is aimed to investigate the interaction between emotionally loaded words and executive functions.
Sarah Oetken +4 more
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Intrusion errors during verbal fluency task in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [PDF]
BACKGROUND:Numerous studies have noted the presence of a dysexecutive component of the ALS-FTD. The most widely replicated result refers to the significantly reduced verbal fluency of ALS patients when compared to healthy people.
Manuel Perez +11 more
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Heritability of semantic verbal fluency task using time-interval analysis. [PDF]
Individual variability in word generation is a product of genetic and environmental influences. The genetic effects on semantic verbal fluency were estimated in 1,735 participants from the Brazilian Baependi Heart Study. The numbers of exemplars produced
T P Taporoski +11 more
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Activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal axis in response to a verbal fluency task and associations with task performance. [PDF]
Speech fluency can be impaired in stressful situations. In this study, it was investigated whether a verbal fluency task by itself, i.e. without the presence of any further stressors, induces responses of the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis and
Linda Becker +2 more
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The effect of bilingualism on the processing of clustering and switching in verbal fluency tasks [PDF]
Background: This study examined the effect of bilingualism on the processing of clustering and switching in verbal fluency tasks in Farsi-Balochi bilinguals.
Najme Mardani +4 more
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Reduced frontotemporal connectivity during a verbal fluency task in patients with anxiety, sleep, and major depressive disorders [PDF]
You Xu, Yuqing Jin, Zhenghe Yu
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Objective: Although evidence has indicated that subjective cognitive decline (SCD) may be an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the objectification of cognitive impairment in SCD is challenging, mainly due to the lack of sensitivity in assessment ...
Joël Macoir +2 more
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Cognitive symptoms associated with antipsychotic course experience in residual schizophrenia
Urgency. The cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia are recognized either as a part of a negative complex of symptomatic, where cognitive malfunction seem to be the secondary complication of emotional and motivational dysregulation; or as a separate group ...
D. Safonov
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Decreased prefrontal activation during verbal fluency task after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment for depression in Alzheimer’s disease: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study [PDF]
Dongsheng Zhou, Xiangping Wu
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