Observational studyClinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil)2015
Naming ability in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease: what changes occur with the evolution of the disease?
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- A systematic literature review of automatic Alzheimer's disease detection from speech and language.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2020Pooled it
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- Naming in a multilingual context: Norms for the ICMR-Manipal colour picture corpus in Kannada from the Indian context.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Cross-cultural Diagnostic Validity of the Multilingual Naming Test (MINT) in a Sample of Older Adults.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2024Article
- Linguistic changes in neurodegenerative diseases relate to clinical symptoms.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Language impairments in Alzheimer´s disease: What changes can be found between mild and moderate stages of the disease?Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2024Observational
- Validation of the test for finding word retrieval deficits (WoFi) in detecting Alzheimer's disease in a naturalistic clinical setting.European journal of ageing · 2023Article
- The Discourse Profile in Corticobasal Syndrome: A Comprehensive Clinical and Biomarker Approach.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Language impairment in the moderate stage of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease.Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria · 2021Article
- Textual Inference Comprehension in Mild Cognitive Impairment: The Influence of Semantic Processing and Verbal Episodic Memory.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2021Article
- Naming as a window to word retrieval changes in healthy and pathological ageing: Methodological considerations.International journal of language & communication disordersReview
- A tutorial on discourse analysis in healthy and pathological ageing.International journal of language & communication disordersArticle
- Lexical Retrieval or Semantic Knowledge? Which One Causes Naming Errors in Patients with Mild and Moderate Alzheimer's Disease?Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extraArticle
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Abstract
objectivesNaming deficit is a linguistic symptom that appears in the initial phase of Alzheimer's disease, but the types of naming errors and the ways in which this deficit changes over the course of the disease are unclear. We analyzed the performance of patients with Alzheimer's disease on naming tasks during the mild and moderate phases and verified how this linguistic skill deteriorates over the course of the disease.
methodsA reduced version of the Boston Naming Test was administered to 30 patients with mild Alzheimer's disease, 30 patients with moderate Alzheimer's disease and 30 healthy controls. Errors were classified as verbal semantic paraphasia, verbal phonemic paraphasia, no response (pure anomia), circumlocution, unrelated verbal paraphasia, visual errors or intrusion errors.
resultsThe patients with moderate Alzheimer's disease had significantly fewer correct answers than did both the control group and the group with mild Alzheimer's disease. With regard to the pattern of errors, verbal semantic paraphasia errors were the most frequent errors in all three groups. Additionally, as the disease severity increased, there was an increase in the number of no-response errors (pure anomia). The group with moderate Alzheimer's disease demonstrated a greater incidence of visual errors and unrelated verbal paraphasias compared with the other two groups and presented a more variable pattern of errors.
conclusionsPerformance on nominative tasks worsened as the disease progressed in terms of both the quantity and the type of errors encountered. This result reflects impairment at different levels of linguistic processing.
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