Pragmatic function impairment and Alzheimer’s dementia

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Schatz ◽  
Melvin González-Rivera
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Alzheimer’S Dementia ◽  
Illocutionary Force ◽  
Targeted Treatment ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Functional Communication ◽  
Progressive Deterioration ◽  
Function Impairment ◽  
Pragmatic Function ◽  
Progressive Cognitive Impairment

Pragmatic competence includes the capacity to express illocutionary force and successfully achieve perlocutionary effects, in order to guarantee fully functional communication exchanges. Alzheimer’s Disease is characterized by a constellation of limitations derived from progressive cognitive impairment, which is usually viewed as a global uniform phenomenon. In this paper it is argued that looking independently at the loss and recovery of pragmatic function related to illocutionary and perlocutionary abilities can be a productive way of understanding the progressive deterioration of communicative capacities by patients or their improvement under targeted treatment.

Validation of the Thai version of the short Boston Naming Test (T-BNT) in patients with Alzheimer’s dementia and mild cognitive impairment: clinical and biomarker correlates.

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 840-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daruj Aniwattanapong ◽  
Sookjaroen Tangwongchai ◽  
Thitiporn Supasitthumrong ◽  
Solaphat Hemrunroj ◽  
Chavit Tunvirachaisakul ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Alzheimer’S Dementia ◽  
Boston Naming Test ◽  
Alzheimer's Dementia ◽  
Naming Test

scholarly journals Prognosis of conversion of mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's dementia by voxel-wise Cox regression based on FDG PET data

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 101637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnd Sörensen ◽  
Ganna Blazhenets ◽  
Gerta Rücker ◽  
Florian Schiller ◽  
Philipp Tobias Meyer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Fdg Pet ◽  
Cox Regression ◽  
Alzheimer’S Dementia ◽  
Alzheimer's Dementia

scholarly journals Separate and Combined Influence of Cognitive Impairment and Dysarthria on Functional Communication in Multiple Sclerosis

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 1051-1065 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynda Feenaughty ◽  
Kris Tjaden ◽  
Bianca Weinstock-Guttman ◽  
Ralph H. B. Benedict
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Cognitive Testing ◽  
Functional Communication ◽  
Group Assignment ◽  
Communication Problems ◽  
Intelligibility Test ◽  
Sentence Intelligibility ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose Dysarthria is a consequence of multiple sclerosis (MS) that can co-occur with cognitive impairment. Clinical management thus requires understanding the separate and combined effects of dysarthria and cognitive impairment on functional communication in MS. This study compared perceptual measures of intelligibility and speech severity that capture functional communication deficits for 4 operationally defined groups with MS. The relationship between communication participation and perceptual measures was also examined. Method Forty-eight adults with MS and 12 healthy controls participated. Cognitive testing and dysarthria diagnosis determined group assignment: (a) MS with cognitive impairment (MSCI), (b) MS with a diagnosis of dysarthria and no cognitive impairment (MSDYS), (c) MS with dysarthria and cognitive impairment (MSDYS + CI), and (d) MS without dysarthria or cognitive impairment (MS). Sentence Intelligibility Test scores, scaled speech severity obtained from the “Grandfather Passage,” and Communication Participation Item Bank (CPIB) scores were analyzed. Results Sentence Intelligibility Test scores approached 100% for all groups. Speech severity was greater for the MSDYS + CI and MSDYS groups versus controls. CPIB scores were greatest for the MSDYS + CI group and were not significantly correlated with either perceptual measure. Conclusions The CPIB and speech severity were sensitive to aspects of communication problems for some groups with MS not reflected in a measure of sentence intelligibility. Findings suggest the importance of employing a variety of measures to capture functional communication problems experienced by persons with MS.

scholarly journals Vitamin E for Alzheimer's dementia and mild cognitive impairment

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Farina ◽  
Mokhtar Gad El Kareem Nasr Isaac ◽  
Annalie R Clark ◽  
Jennifer Rusted ◽  
Naji Tabet
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Vitamin E ◽  
Alzheimer’S Dementia ◽  
Alzheimer's Dementia

An overview on Hebephrenia, a diagnostic cornerstone in the neurodevelopmental model of Schizophrenia

2022 ◽  
pp. 0957154X2110625
Author(s):  
Carlo Maggini ◽  
Riccardo Dalle Luche
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Dementia Praecox ◽  
The Core ◽  
Neurodevelopmental Model ◽  
Psychic Energy ◽  
Progressive Cognitive Impairment

Pre-Kraepelinian observations converged in Kahlbaum’s and Hecker’s description of Hebephrenia. For Kraepelin, Hebephrenia was an ‘idiopathic incurable dementia whose onset is in adolescence’. It became the core of ‘Dementia Praecox’, and then Bleulerian ‘Schizophrenia’. In recent decades, the resurgence of the ‘late neurodevelopment’ hypothesis of schizophrenia has brought into focus Hecker’s clinical reports of adolescents who, as a result of a putative loss of psychic energy, showed a rapidly progressive cognitive impairment leading to functional and behavioural disorganization. This paper summarizes the nineteenth-century conceptualization of Hebephrenia as a developmental illness.

Comparison of neuroimaging modalities for the prediction of conversion from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's dementia

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula T. Trzepacz ◽  
Peng Yu ◽  
Jia Sun ◽  
Kory Schuh ◽  
Michael Case ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Alzheimer’S Dementia ◽  
Alzheimer's Dementia
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