ArticleDementia & neuropsychologia
Verbal fluency in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment in individuals with low educational level and its relationship with reading and writing habits.
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- Phonological and Semantic Fluency in Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2023Pooled it
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- [Three tasks for the exploration of verbal fluency: evidence of test-retest reliability in Argentine adults].Revista de neurologia · 2022Article
- Three verbal fluency tasks: Normative data and convergent validity in Argentines over 50 years.Dementia & neuropsychologia · 2022Article
- Regression-Based Normative Data for Independent and Cognitively Active Spanish Older Adults: Verbal Fluency Tests and Boston Naming Test.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Reading and writing habits compensate for aging effects in speech connectedness.NPJ science of learning · 2022Article
- The Lifetime of Experiences Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties and Relationships With Memory Function in an Iranian Elderly Sample.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Lower Education and Reading and Writing Habits Are Associated With Poorer Oral Discourse Production in Typical Adults and Older Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Effects of White Matter Hyperintensities on Verbal Fluency in Healthy Older Adults and MCI/AD.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
Verbal fluency (VF) has contributed to building cognitive maps as well as differentiating healthy populations from those with dementia.
objectivesTo compare the performance of healthy controls and patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) in two semantic VF tasks (animals/clothes) and a phonemic VF task (letter P). Also, to analyze the relationship between the frequency of reading and writing habits (FRWH) and VF in individuals with low educational level.
methodsSixty-seven older adults aged 60-80 years and with 2-8 years of schooling were divided into three groups: controls (n=25), older adults with MCI (n=24), and older adults with AD (n=18). We analyzed the type, mean size, and number of clusters, switches, intersections, and returns. A post-hoc single-factor ANOVA analysis was conducted to verify differences between groups.
resultsTotal words in the phonemic VF and the animal category discriminated the three groups. Regarding the animal category, AD patients performed worse than controls in the total number of words, taxonomic clusters, returns, and number of words remembered. We found a moderate correlation between FRWH and total number of words in the phonemic fluency.
conclusionsSemantic (animate) and phonemic (total words) VF differentiated controls and clinical groups from each other - the phonemic component was more related to FRWH than the semantic one. The phonemic VF seems to be more related to cognitive reserve. VF tasks, considering total words and cluster analyses, are a valuable tool to test healthy and cognitively impaired older adults who have a low educational level.
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