ArticleNeuropsychological rehabilitation2016
How to constrain and maintain a lexicon for the treatment of progressive semantic naming deficits: Principles of item selection for formal semantic therapy.
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- Behavioral Treatment for Speech and Language in Primary Progressive Aphasia and Primary Progressive Apraxia of Speech: A Systematic Review.Neuropsychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Computer-Based Naming Treatment for Semantic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia With History of Traumatic Brain Injury: A Single-Case Experimental Design.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024Article
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- Eyetracking during picture naming predicts future vocabulary dropout in progressive anomia.Neuropsychological rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Context-sensitive computational mechanistic explanation in cognitive neuroscience.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Semantic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia: Practical Recommendations for Treatment from 20 Years of Behavioural Research.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Cognitive Intervention Strategies Directed to Speech and Language Deficits in Primary Progressive Aphasia: Practice-Based Evidence from 18 Cases.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Evaluating a Maintenance-Based Treatment Approach to Preventing Lexical Dropout in Progressive Anomia.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2020Article
- Long-Term maintenance of anomia treatment effects in primary progressive aphasia.Neuropsychological rehabilitation · 2019Article
- Naming and Knowing Revisited: Eyetracking Correlates of Anomia in Progressive Aphasia.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- Exploring supported conversation with familial caregivers of persons with dementia: a pilot study.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2019Article
- Semantic Feature Training in Combination with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) for Progressive Anomia.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
- A Neuropsychological Perspective on Abstract Word Representation: From Theory to Treatment of Acquired Language Disorders.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2016Review
- The Dissociation between Polarity, Semantic Orientation, and Emotional Tone as an Early Indicator of Cognitive Impairment.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2016Article
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Abstract
The progressive degradation of semantic memory is a common feature of many forms of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease and the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia (svPPA). One of the most functionally debilitating effects of this semantic impairment is the inability to name common people and objects (i.e., anomia). Clinical management of a progressive, semantically based anomia presents extraordinary challenges for neurorehabilitation. Techniques such as errorless learning and spaced-retrieval training show promise for retraining forgotten words. However, we lack complementary detail about what to train (i.e., item selection) and how to flexibly adapt the training to a declining cognitive system. This position paper weighs the relative merits of several treatment rationales (e.g., restore vs. compensate) and advocates for maintenance of known words over reacquisition of forgotten knowledge in the context of semantic treatment paradigms. I propose a system for generating an item pool and outline a set of core principles for training and sustaining a micro-lexicon consisting of approximately 100 words. These principles are informed by lessons learned over the course of a Phase I treatment study targeting language maintenance over a 5-year span in Alzheimer's disease and SvPPA. Finally, I propose a semantic training approach that capitalises on lexical frequency and repeated training on conceptual structure to offset the loss of key vocabulary as disease severity worsens.
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