Cognition has been well characterized in the various stages of Huntington disease (HD) as
well as in the prodrome before the motor diagnosis is given. Although the clinical diagnosis …

Neuropsychological studies show that cognitive deficits associated with Alzheimer's disease
(AD) are distinct from age-associated cognitive decline. Quantitative and qualitative …

Background Subjects with a mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have a memory impairment
beyond that expected for age and education yet are not demented. These subjects are …

Neuropsychological assessment of older individuals with dementing illnesses has suffered
from a lack of appropriately designed test instruments. The Repeatable Battery for the …

Abstract Spanish-English bilinguals and English monolinguals completed 12 semantic, 10
letter, and 2 proper name fluency categories. Bilinguals produced fewer exemplars than …

Category and letter fluency tasks have been used to demonstrate psychological and
neurological dissociations between semantic and phonological aspects of word retrieval …

Letter and category fluency tasks are used to assess semantic knowledge, retrieval ability,
and executive functioning. They appear to be useful in detecting different types of dementia …

Verbal fluency tasks have been widely used to evaluate language and executive control
processes in the human brain. FMRI studies of verbal fluency, however, have used either …

To establish whether semantic memory is consistently impaired in patients with very mild
dementia of Alzheimer's type (DAT), we assessed episodic and semantic memory in 52 …

Sex differences in neurological disease extend from incidence, severity, progression and
symptoms and may ultimately influence treatment. Cognitive disturbances are frequent in …