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Performance in verbal fluency tests show a number of consistent characteristics in both children and adults: [13] [6] [14] A declining rate of production of new items over the duration of the task, which was long discussed as following either an exponential [15] or a hyperbolic [16] time course, [7] which finally could be shown to be special cases of a unifying power function (the fused ...
The Boston Naming Test (BNT), introduced in 1983 by Edith Kaplan, Harold Goodglass and Sandra Weintraub, is a widely used neuropsychological assessment tool to measure confrontational word retrieval in individuals with aphasia or other language disturbance caused by stroke, Alzheimer's disease, or other dementing disorder. [1]
The Trail Making Test is a neuropsychological test of visual attention and task switching.It has two parts, in which the subject is instructed to connect a set of 25 dots as quickly as possible while maintaining accuracy. [1]
Examples of such situations include: “Remembering where to find things which have been put in a different place from usual” and “Handling money for shopping”. Each situation is rated by the informant for amount of change over the previous 10 years, using the following scale: 1. Much improved, 2. A bit improved, 3. Not much change, 4.
Pre-dementia or early-stage dementia (stages 1, 2, and 3). In this initial phase, a person can still live independently and may not exhibit obvious memory loss or have any difficulty completing ...
Digit symbol substitution test (DSST) is a neuropsychological test sensitive to brain damage, dementia, age and depression.The test is not sensitive to the location of brain-damage (except for damage comprising part of the visual field). [1]
Moderate and severe traumatic brain injuries increase a risk of cognitive decline or dementia even years later by anywhere from two to four times, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. For ...
For example, some forms of chronic drug or alcohol dependence can cause organic brain syndrome due to their long-lasting or permanent toxic effects on brain function. [6] Other common causes of chronic organic brain syndrome sometimes listed are the various types of dementia, which result from permanent brain damage due to strokes, [7 ...