There are several tests used in clinical practice and research worldwide that have been
devised to assess the functions subsumed by the frontal lobes of the brain. Anatomical …

Despite a better understanding of the organization of the cortical network underlying the
semantic system, very few data are currently available regarding its anatomo-functional …

The main goal of this study was to produce adjusted normative data for the Portuguese
population on two verbal fluency measures: the semantic fluency test (animals category) and …

Brain abnormalities in the reading network have been repeatedly reported in individuals
with developmental dyslexia (DD); however, it is still not totally understood where the …

Neuropsychological studies from the past century have associated damage to the
ventromedial frontal lobes (VMF) with impairments in a variety of domains, including …

The literature suggests that that semantic and phonological fluency tasks selectively activate
left Brodmann's area (BA) 45 and 44, respectively, in Broca's speech region. We used …

Purpose This study was designed to explore the behavioral nature of pragmatic impairment
following severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to evaluate the contribution of executive …

Objectives: To examine the nature of executive deficits in euthymic patients with bipolar
disorder (BD). Methods: Fifteen euthymic BD patients and 13 controls were administered a …

Two underlying components of verbal fluency tasks have been identified as clustering (the
ability to generate successive words within a sub-category) and switching (the ability to shift …

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a recognized cause of cognitive dysfunction. By using a
cross‐sectional comparative study, we aimed to verify whether neuropsychological …