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Verbal fluency in Parkinson's disease: results of a 2-min fluency test

Acta Neuropsychiatrica, 2006
Background:Patients suffering from Parkinson's disease (PD) are often reported to have an impaired performance on tests measuring executive functioning, such as fluency tasks.Aim:To investigate whether verbal fluency is impaired in PD patients (n = 25) compared with healthy controls (n = 15) using a 2-min semantic and phonemic verbal fluency test.
B. Scholtissen, J. Dijkstra, J. Reithler, A. Leentjens   +3 more
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Cerebral metabolic effects of a verbal fluency test: a PET scan study.

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 1988
Sixteen normal volunteers were studied with [F-18] fluorodeoxyglucose and positron emission tomography scans during behavioral activation with a verbal fluency test, and 35 age-matched controls were studied with resting-state scans. There was an overall increase of the cerebral glucose metabolic rate of 23.3% during verbal fluency activation, compared ...
R. Parks, D. Loewenstein, K. L. Dodrill, W. Barker, F. Yoshii, J. Chang, A. M. Emran, A. Apicella, W. Sheramata, R. Duara   +9 more
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A new standardization of semantic verbal fluency test

Neurological Sciences, 2014
Semantic verbal fluency test is frequently used in clinical practice to assess lexical retrieval and production in neurological and psychiatric diseases. Semantic category is a crucial variable to consider in patients with language disorders. Norms for this task were collected from a population of 290 Italian healthy participants with age ranging from ...
B. Zarino, M. Crespi, Michela Launi, A. Casarotti   +3 more
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The verbal fluency index: Dutch normative data for cognitive testing in ALS

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration, 2014
Executive dysfunction occurs in 30-50% of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients and is most frequently assessed with the verbal fluency test. The verbal fluency index (VFI) has been developed to correct for slowness of speech in ALS, and reflects the average thinking time per word. However, its use as a marker of cognitive impairment is hindered
Emma Beeldman, Bregje Jaeger, Joost Raaphorst   +2 more
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Performances on five verbal fluency tests in a healthy, elderly Danish sample

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 2013
Verbal fluency tests are widely used as measures of language and executive functions. This study presents data for five tests; semantic fluency (animals, supermarket items and alternating between cities and professions), lexical fluency (s-words), and action fluency (verbs) based on a sample of 100 cognitively intact elderly Danish subjects aged 60-87 ...
Jette Stokholm, Kasper Jørgensen, Asmus Vogel   +2 more
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Category Verbal Fluency Test Performance in Chinese Elderly with Alzheimer’s Disease

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 2004
<i>Introduction:</i> The applicability of category verbal fluency test (VFT) as a screening test for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in the Chinese population was studied. <i>Methods:</i> VFTs with categories of ‘animal’, ‘fruit’ and ‘vegetable’ were administrated to 72 subjects with AD and 81 aged-matched, community-dwelling, non ...
Edward Hei Lim Mok, L. Lam, H. Chiu
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The Abilities Associated with Verbal Fluency Performance in a Young, Healthy Population Are Multifactorial and Differ Across Fluency Variants

Applied Neuropsychology Adult, 2013
Claudine M Kraan, Renee Testa
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Phonological Verbal Fluency Test for Russian-Speaking Children

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 2023
Introduction: Verbal fluency tasks are mainly used for assessment of verbal fluency and have proven useful for differential diagnosis. The first objective of the study was to provide normative data on phonemic verbal fluency (for letters “Π” [p], “O” [o], “C” [s]) in children population.
Sofia, Mironets, Alena, Deviaterikova, Elena, Glebova, Vladimir, Kasatkin   +3 more
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The emotion word fluency test as an embedded performance validity indicator – Alone and in a multivariate validity composite

Applied neuropsychology. Child, 2021
Objective This project was designed to cross-validate existing performance validity cutoffs embedded within measures of verbal fluency (FAS and animals) and develop new ones for the Emotion Word Fluency Test (EWFT), a novel measure of category fluency ...
Christopher A. Abeare, K. An, Bradley T. Tyson, M. Holcomb, L. Cutler, N. May, Laszlo A. Erdodi   +6 more
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