Language-specific effects in Alzheimer’s disease: Subject omission in Italian and English

Bencini, Giulia; Pozzan, Lucia; Biundo, Roberta; McGeown, William J.; Valian, Virginia; Venneri, Annalena; Semenza, Carlo

doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2010.07.004

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“…The results, thus, suggest that the language-specific properties of (morpho)syntactic categories matter. This is in line with the findings of Bencini et al (2011), who showed that sentence repetition patterns in AD depend on the structural properties of a given language.…”

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“…Relatedly, the majority of linguistically-oriented studies on AD focus on the lexical-semantic domain (e.g., Almor et al, 2009;Aronoff et al, 2006;Bowles, Obler, & Albert, 1987;Druks et al, 2006;Harciarek & Kertesz, 2009;Kempler, Andersen, & Henderson, 1995;Kim & Thompson, 2004;Masterson et al, 2007;Robinson, Grossman, White-Devine, & D'Esposito, 1996;Whatmough & Chertkow, 2002) and on sentence comprehension (e.g., Kempler, Almor, MacDonald, & Andersen, 1999;Kempler, Almor, Tyler, Andersen, & MacDonald, 1998;Rochon, Waters, & Caplan, 1994, 2000Waters & Caplan, 2002). To date, only a few studies have investigated sentence production abilities (see, for example, Altmann, 2004;Bencini et al, 2011;Kavé & Levy, 2003;Kempler, Curtiss, & Jackson, 1987;Kemper, LaBarge, Ferraro, Cheung, & Storandt, 1993) and morphosyntactic production abilities of participants with AD (for a recent systematic review on inflectional morphology in AD and primary progressive aphasia, see Auclair-Ouellet, 2015).…”

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Morphosyntactic production in Greek- and Italian-speaking individuals with probable Alzheimer’s disease: evidence from subject–verb agreement, tense/time reference, and mood

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Morphosyntactic production in Greek-and Italian-speaking individuals with probable Alzheimer's disease: Evidence from subject-verb agreement, tense/time reference, and mood Background: In probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) different memory systems, executive functioning, visuospatial recognition, and language are impaired. Regarding the latter, only a few studies have investigated morphosyntactic production thus far. Aims: This study, which is a follow-up on Fyndanis, Manouilidou, Koufou, Karampekios, and Tsapakis (2013), investigates whether verb-related morphosyntactic production is (selectively) impaired in AD focusing on two highly inflected languages, Greek and Italian. The morphosyntactic phenomena explored are subject-verb Agreement, Tense/Time Reference, and Mood. Focusing on these phenomena allows us to investigate if recent hypotheses, originally developed in aphasia research, can also capture results related to AD. We tested the hypotheses discussed in Fyndanis et al. (2013), that is, the Interpretable Features' Impairment Hypothesis

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“…There is some evidence, however, that analysis of patients' language may contribute to detecting dementia risk in patients with mild cognitive impairment [5][6][7], in sponaneous writing [8][9][10], and spontaneous speech [11,12].…”

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Towards diagnostic conversational profiles of patients presenting with dementia or functional memory disorders to memory clinics

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YesObjective\ud \ud This study explores whether the profile of patients’ interactional behaviour in memory clinic conversations with a doctor can contribute to the clinical differentiation between functional memory disorders (FMD) and memory problems related to neurodegenerative diseases.\ud \ud Methods\ud \ud Conversation Analysis of video recordings of neurologists’ interactions with patients attending a specialist memory clinic. “Gold standard” diagnoses were made independently of CA findings by a multi-disciplinary team based on clinical assessment, neuropsychological testing and brain imaging.\ud \ud Results\ud \ud Two discrete conversational profiles for patients with memory complaints emerged, including (i) who attends the clinic (i.e., whether or not patients are accompanied), and (ii) patients’ responses to neurologists’ questions about memory problems, such as difficulties with compound questions and providing specific and elaborated examples and frequent “I don’t know” responses.\ud \ud Conclusion\ud \ud Specific communicative difficulties are characteristic of the interaction patterns of patients with a neurodegenerative pathology. Those difficulties are manifest in memory clinic interactions with neurologists, thereby helping to differentiate patients with dementia from those with FMD.\ud \ud Practical implications\ud \ud Our findings demonstrate that conversational profiles based on patients’ contributions to memory clinic encounters have diagnostic potential to assist the screening and referral process from primary care, and the diagnostic service in secondary care

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“…Previous reports have also demonstrated that cognitive impairment, such as language, may have predictive value for behavioral symptoms [ 7 ]. Moreover, the effect of language impairment is not symmetric across every language [ 8 ]. A study of Japanese-Portuguese bilingual patients also reflected different patterns of degeneration in each of their languages.…”

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More Delusions May Be Observed in Low-Proficient Multilingual Alzheimer’s Disease Patients

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BackgroundLanguage impairment and behavioral symptoms are both common phenomena in dementia patients. In this study, we investigated the behavioral symptoms in dementia patients with different language backgrounds. Through this, we aimed to propose a possible connection between language and delusion.MethodsWe recruited 21 patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), according to the DSM-IV and NINCDS-ADRDA criteria, from the memory clinic of the Cardinal Tien Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan. They were classified into two groups: 11 multilinguals who could speak Japanese, Taiwanese and Mandarin Chinese, and 10 bilinguals who only spoke Taiwanese and Mandarin Chinese. There were no differences between age, education, disease duration, disease severity, environment and medical care between these two groups. Comprehensive neuropsychological examinations, including Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR), Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE), Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument (CASI), Verbal fluency, Chinese version of the Boston naming test (BNT) and the Behavioral Pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease Rating Scale (BEHAVE-AD), were administered.ResultsThe multilingual group showed worse results on the Boston naming test. Other neuropsychological tests, including the MMSE, CASI and Verbal fluency, were not significantly different. More delusions were noted in the multilingual group. Three pairs of subjects were identified for further examination of their differences. These three cases presented the typical scenario of how language misunderstanding may cause delusions in multilingual dementia patients. Consequently, more emotion and distorted ideas may be induced in the multilinguals compared with the MMSE-matched controls.ConclusionInappropriate mixing of language or conflict between cognition and emotion may cause more delusions in these multilingual patients. This reminds us that delusion is not a pure biological outcome of brain degeneration. Although the cognitive performance was not significantly different between our groups, language may still affect their delusion.

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Language-specific effects in Alzheimer’s disease: Subject omission in Italian and English

Cited by 14 publications

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Morphosyntactic production in Greek- and Italian-speaking individuals with probable Alzheimer’s disease: evidence from subject–verb agreement, tense/time reference, and mood

Morphosyntactic production in Greek- and Italian-speaking individuals with probable Alzheimer’s disease: evidence from subject–verb agreement, tense/time reference, and mood

Towards diagnostic conversational profiles of patients presenting with dementia or functional memory disorders to memory clinics

More Delusions May Be Observed in Low-Proficient Multilingual Alzheimer’s Disease Patients

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