Reading comprehension in Parkinson's disease

LL Murray, S Rutledge - American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2014 - ASHA
Purpose Although individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) self-report reading problems
and experience difficulties in cognitive–linguistic functions that support discourse-level …

Sentence comprehension in Parkinson's disease: The role of attention and memory

M Grossman, S Carvell, MB Stern, S Gollomp… - Brain and language, 1992 - Elsevier
Sentence comprehension is a complex process involving at least attentional, memory,
grammatical, and semantic components. We report three experiments designed to evaluate …

Are verbal fluency and nonliteral language comprehension deficits related to depressive symptoms in Parkinson's disease?

C Tremblay, O Monchi, C Hudon, J Macoir… - Parkinson's …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Depression in Parkinson′ s disease (PD) is frequently associated with executive deficits,
which can influence nonliteral comprehension and lexical access. This study explores …

Evaluation of linguistic markers of word-finding difficulty and cognition in Parkinson's disease

KM Smith, S Ash, SX Xie, M Grossman - Journal of Speech, Language, and …, 2018 - ASHA
Purpose Early cognitive symptoms such as word-finding difficulty (WFD) in daily
conversation are common in Parkinson's disease (PD), but studies have been limited by a …

Language impairment in Parkinson's disease

FM Lewis, LL Lapointe, BE Murdoch, HJ Chenery - Aphasiology, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
Increasingly, researchers and clinicians are beginning to unveil both cognitive and linguistic
impairments in Parkinson's disease (PD), a condition characterized in the past primarily by …

The effect of attentional set-shifting, working memory, and processing speed on pragmatic language functioning in Parkinson's disease

A McKinlay, JC Dalrymple-Alford… - European Journal of …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Parkinson's disease (PD) is traditionally associated with motor symptoms. However,
impairments in language functioning may also accompany this disorder. The present study …

Cognitive resource limitations during sentence comprehension in Parkinson's disease

M Grossman, J Kalmanson, N Bernhardt, J Morris… - Brain and language, 2000 - Elsevier
Patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) were asked to identify the agent of the
action in orally presented sentences with subject-relative or object-relative center …

The roles of sequencing and verbal working memory in sentence comprehension deficits in Parkinson's disease

J Hochstadt, H Nakano, P Lieberman, J Friedman - Brain and language, 2006 - Elsevier
Studies of sentence comprehension deficits in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients suggest
that language processing involves circuits connecting subcortical and cortical regions …

Natural reading in Parkinson's disease with and without mild cognitive impairment

L Stock, C Krüger-Zechlin, Z Deeb… - Frontiers in Aging …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background: Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) show eye movement abnormalities and
frequently complain about difficulties in reading. So far, it is unclear whether basal ganglia …

Language processing in Parkinson's disease patients without dementia

K Colman, R Bastiaanse - Diagnostics and Rehabilitations of …, 2011 - books.google.com
One of the major pathophysiological features in Parkinson's disease, from now on referred to
as PD, is the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra, which in turn results in …