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Publication Date: 2005-Nov
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Impaired Verb Fluency: A Sign of Mild Cognitive Impairment
Ostberg, Per; Fernaeus, Sven-Erik; Hellstrom, Ake; Bogdanovic, Nenad; Wahlund, Lars Olof
Brain and Language, v95 n2 p273-279 Nov 2005
We assessed verb fluency vs. noun and letter-based fluency in 199 subjects referred for cognitive complaints including Subjective Cognitive Impairment, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Alzheimer's disease. ANCOVAs and factor analyses identified verb, noun, and letter-based fluency as distinct tasks. Verb fluency performance in Mild Cognitive Impairment differed significantly from Subjective Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's disease. Reduced verb fluency thus appears to be a linguistic marker for incipient dementia. One possibility is that the verb fluency deficit in Mild Cognitive Impairment results from degenerative processes known to occur in the parahippocampal region.
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Alzheimers Disease, Language Impairments, Cognitive Ability, Mild Mental Retardation, Neurolinguistics, Dementia, Language Fluency, Predictor Variables
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