A comparison of verbal and written language in Alzheimer’s disease

Groves-Wright, Kathy; Neils-Strunjaš, Jean; Burnett, Robert; O’Neill, Margaret

doi:10.1016/j.jcomdis.2003.08.004

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“…[15]. As for decision-making capacity, also the writing ability has largely been studied among people with MCI and dementia [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. Writing disorders are considered an early manifestation of Alzheimer's disease (AD), often more severe than oral language difficulties [29].…”

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A correlational study between signature, writing abilities and decision-making capacity among people with initial cognitive impairment

Renier

Gnoato

Tessari³

et al. 2016

Aging Clin Exp Res

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A correlational study between signature, writing abilities and decision-making capacity among people with initial cognitive impairment

Renier

Gnoato

Tessari³

et al. 2016

Aging Clin Exp Res

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“…Although there is relative preservation of motor output, phonology and syntax in spontaneous speech, multiple graphemic and orthographic errors are found in written descriptions (8), as are grammatical errors, implausible detail (9) and less information (10)(11).…”

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Charting the decline in spontaneous writing in Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal study

Forbes-McKay

Shanks

Venneri

2014

Acta Neuropsychiatr.

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Cross-sectional comparisons indicated that minimal-moderate AD patients produced more semantic paraphasias, phonological paraphasias, and empty and indefinite phrases, whilst producing fewer pictorial themes, repairing fewer errors, and producing shorter and less complex sentences than controls. The two groups could not be distinguished on visual paraphasias. Longitudinal follow-up, however, suggested that visual processing deteriorates over time, where the prevalence of visual errors increased over 12 months. Discussion The findings suggest that the deterioration of writing skills observed in the spontaneous writings of AD patients shows a pattern of impairment dominated by semantic errors with a secondary impairment in phonological processing, which is later joined by a disruption of visuospatial and graphomotor processing.

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“…2004, Forbes-McKay ve Venneri 2005, Glosser ve ark. 1999, Groves-Wright ve ark. 2004, Mendez ve ark.…”

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The Ege Agraphia Test Battery in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease

Akkuş¹,

Güler²

2015

Turkish Journal of Psychiatry

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ÖZETAmaç: Bu çalışmada Türkçe'ye özgü bir agrafi test bataryası oluşturmak, performans ve hata tipleri yönünden bu teste ait normatif veriler elde etmek, ayrıca yazmanın karmaşık bir işlev olması nedeniyle, bu testin Hafif Bilişsel Bozukluk (HBB) olgularında biçimsel nöropsikolojik değerlendirmeye yansımayan bilişsel bozuklukları tanımadaki yararını araştırmak amaçlanmıştır. Objective: The purpose of this study is to create an agraphia test battery specific to Turkish language, to obtain normative data for the performance and error types of this test and to demonstrate its success in detecting cognitive disorders in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) cases that can't be diagnosed by formal neuropsychological tests due to the fact that writing is a complex function. Yöntem Method:For this purpose, 20 healthy control (HC) subjects, 20 MCI cases and 20 Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients with Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) of 1 were evaluated with Ege Agraphia Test Battery.Results: Significant differences between the performance points and the error types of HC subjects, MCI cases and AD patients were obtained. As the cognitive impairment of the subjects in the study got worse, the writing skills also became worse revealing lower test points. Besides, some statistically significant differences between the error types of MCI cases and AD patients were found. Conclusion:Ege Agraphia Test Battery is not only a practical test, but also is the first defined agraphia test specific for Turkish language. Writing disorders in cases with MCI support the view that MCI is a transition period for AD. Further studies are required to increase the test data and proper rearrangements of the test battery.

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A comparison of verbal and written language in Alzheimer’s disease

Cited by 47 publications

References 30 publications

A correlational study between signature, writing abilities and decision-making capacity among people with initial cognitive impairment

A correlational study between signature, writing abilities and decision-making capacity among people with initial cognitive impairment

Charting the decline in spontaneous writing in Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal study

The Ege Agraphia Test Battery in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease

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