The picture-naming task in the analysis of cognitive deterioration in Alzheimer's disease

Aphasiology ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 545-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Cuetos ◽  
María Gonzalez-Nosti ◽  
Carmen Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Picture Naming ◽  
Naming Task ◽  
Cognitive Deterioration

scholarly journals Oral and Written Naming in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Longitudinal Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 1142-1150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Gonzalez-Nosti ◽  
Fernando Cuetos ◽  
Carmen Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Picture Naming ◽  
Naming Task ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Healthy Elderly ◽  
Naming Tasks ◽  
Better Than

Background: The expressive difficulties in patients with Alzheimer’s dementia have been extensively studied, mainly in oral language. However, the deterioration of their writing processes has received much less attention. Objective: The present study aims to examine the decline of the performance of patients with Alzheimer’s disease in both oral and written picture-naming tasks. Method: Sixty-four participants (half with Alzheimer’s disease and half healthy elderly) were compared in the oral and written versions of a picture-naming task. Follow-up lasted two and a half years and patients were evaluated every six months. Results: Cross-sectional data indicate that the controls performed better than the patients, and both groups showed a different pattern of errors. In terms of longitudinal data, the results show a similar pattern of deterioration in both tasks. In terms of errors, lexical-semantics were the most numerous at the beginning and their number remained constant throughout all evaluations. In the case of non-responses, there was a significant increase in the last session, both in oral and written naming. Conclusion: These results replicate those found in previous studies and highlight the utility of the naming task to detect minimal changes in the evolution of patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

scholarly journals Picture-Naming Performance in Persian-Speaking Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease

2018 ◽  
Vol In Press (In Press) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Noroozian ◽  
Jafar Masumi ◽  
Ahmad Reza Khatoonabadi ◽  
Masoud Salehi ◽  
Mahmoud Kargar
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Picture Naming ◽  
Naming Performance

scholarly journals Measuring cognitive deterioration in Alzheimer's disease

1997 ◽  
Vol 170 (6) ◽  
pp. 580-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. R. J. Swanwick ◽  
M. J. Rowan ◽  
R. F. Coen ◽  
B. A. Lawlor ◽  
D. Coakley
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Cognitive Deterioration

Diagnostic utility of sound naming in early Alzheimer’s disease

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
HYEON-AE JEON ◽  
KYOUNG-MIN LEE
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Picture Naming ◽  
Temporal Cortex ◽  
Cognitive Domain ◽  
Diagnostic Utility ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Early Alzheimer’S Disease

AbstractWhile it is well known that picture naming (PN) is impaired in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), sound naming (SN) has not been thoroughly investigated. We postulated that SN might be impaired more severely and earlier than PN, given the early involvement of the temporal cortex by AD-related pathology. SN and PN were assessed in 21 normal participants, 40 patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and 27 patients in early stages of AD. Our results showed that SN accuracy and latency were more sensitive to advancing pathology in AD than PN accuracy and latency. SN was more useful and specific in distinguishing MCI patients from normal participants and therefore in potentially identifying the subset of MCI patients who already have impairment in more than one cognitive domain and may actually have incipient AD. These findings indicate a potential diagnostic utility of SN for early detection of the disease. Furthermore, even though most AD patients demonstrated more or less comparable impairment in both tasks, some were disproportionately impaired on SN and others were differentially impaired on PN. Future studies may be able to show that these discrepant groups correspond to patients with right and left hemisphere predominant AD, respectively. (JINS, 2009, 15, 231–238.)

The role of persistent and incident major depression on rate of cognitive deterioration in newly diagnosed Alzheimer's disease patients

2012 ◽  
Vol 198 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianfranco Spalletta ◽  
Carlo Caltagirone ◽  
Paolo Girardi ◽  
Walter Gianni ◽  
Anna Rosa Casini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Major Depression ◽  
Cognitive Deterioration ◽  
Newly Diagnosed

Disease progression model for cognitive deterioration from Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative database

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaori Ito ◽  
Brian Corrigan ◽  
Qinying Zhao ◽  
Jonathan French ◽  
Raymond Miller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Disease Progression ◽  
Cognitive Deterioration ◽  
Progression Model ◽  
Disease Progression Model

Effects of structural similarity and name frequency on picture naming in Alzheimer's disease

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 659-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHARON L. THOMPSON-SCHILL ◽  
JOHN D. E. GABRIELI ◽  
DEBRA A. FLEISCHMAN
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Picture Naming ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Naming Latency ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Word Retrieval ◽  
Perceptual Processing ◽  
Retrieval Processes ◽  
Confrontation Naming

Impairments to either perceptual or word-retrieval processes have been hypothesized to explain confrontation naming impairments in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). This study measured the effects of structural similarity, which affects perceptual processing, and name frequency, which affects word retrieval, on naming latency and accuracy in 16 AD patients and 16 age-matched controls. AD patients named pictures more slowly and made more errors than control participants. Their naming accuracy was disproportionately affected by name frequency, but not by structural similarity. The findings indicate that the processing of structural properties of objects is unaffected in early-stage AD, and suggest that word-retrieval impairments underlie the naming deficit in AD. (JINS, 1999, 5, 659–667.)

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