Science news articles about 'verbal fluency'
Midlife smokers may have worse memory than non-smokers
... fluency between 1997 and 1999 and 4,659 were re-tested five years later. Individuals ... likely to have cognitive deficits in memory, vocabulary and verbal fluency. Third, giving up smoking in midlife ...Heart disease is linked to worse mental processes that, in turn, predict the onset of dementia
... disease is associated with a worse performance in mental processes such as reasoning, vocabulary and verbal fluency, according to a study of 5837 middle-aged Whitehall civil servants. The study also ...Brain imaging links chronic insomnia to reversible cognitive deficits without changes in behavior
... sleep therapy group also generated more words on the verbal fluency tasks after treatment than members of the wait- ... fMRI scanning during the performance of verbabal fluency tasks between 5 p.m. and 8 ...Adult-onset diabetes slows mental functioning in several ways, with deficits appearing early
... different tests. There were no significant differences on tests of episodic and semantic memory, verbal fluency, reaction time and perceptual speed. When researchers divided participants into young ...Language performance and differences in brain activity possibly affected by sex
... Selection was based on sex and contrasted scores in a fluency task i.e. high versus ... certain other regions. Investigating the neural correlates of verbal fluency focusing on sex differences should ...Second-hand smoke linked to cognitive impairment
... (recalling words immediately and after a delay), numerical calculations, time orientation, and verbal fluency (naming as many animals as possible in one minute). These results were added together to ...Passive smoking link to dementia
... used to assess brain function and cognitive impairment. These focused on memory function, numeracy and verbal fluency. The test results were added together to provide a global score for cognitive ...The sweet spot? UF doctors test targets for Parkinson surgery
... Center at UF's McKnight Brain Institute. "But there were differences in cognitive function and verbal fluency seven months after the surgery, and that is something that should be considered when ...New test could help diagnose early dementia
... ability to copy a sentence, semantic knowledge, calculation, verbal fluency and recall ability. The ability to do the test is also scored. Each task carries a score with a ...Most neuropsychological tests don't tell Alzheimer's disease from vascular dementia
... , many commonly used tests -- such as Digit Span (repeating a set of numbers forward, backward), verbal fluency (generating words by first letter or category, such as animals), drawing tasks and more ...Life after chemotherapy: Daily tasks, quality of life may be affected, MU researcher finds
... -Arndt identified two measures of daily cognitive functioning that seemed to affect quality of life. Verbal fluency, such as the ability to recall certain words when necessary, and self-reports of ...
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