The age of acquisition of words produced in a semantic fluency task can reliably differentiate normal from pathological age related cognitive decline

This study examined differences in the characteristics of words produced by healthy elderly controls and by patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in a semantic fluency task (generating words from the categories of animals and fruit). Ninety-six AD patients (MMSE 13–29) and 40 controls matched...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Neuropsychologia 2005, Vol.43 (11), p.1625-1632
Hauptverfasser:	Forbes-McKay, Katrina E., Ellis, Andrew W., Shanks, Michael F., Venneri, Annalena
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult and adolescent clinical studies Age of acquisition Age of Onset Aged Aged, 80 and over Aging - physiology Alzheimer Alzheimer Disease - complications Alzheimer Disease - physiopathology Biological and medical sciences Cognition Disorders - physiopathology Degenerative and inherited degenerative diseases of the nervous system. Leukodystrophies. Prion diseases Dementia Female Fluency Humans Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Neurology Neuropsychological Tests - statistics & numerical data Organic mental disorders. Neuropsychology Production Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Schizophrenic Language Semantics Speech Production Measurement - methods Verbal Behavior - physiology
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