2010
DOI: 10.1017/s1041610210001092
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Microlinguistic aspects of the oral narrative in patients with Alzheimer's disease

Abstract: Performance in microlinguistics at the lexical and syntactic levels was lower than expected in participants with AD.

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“…Schooling ranged from four to fifteen years of formal education where MMSE cut-off scores are applied to participants based on level of schooling, with lower cut-offs for individuals with fewer years of schooling. Level of schooling of the subject can impact both the organizing of discourse 27 , and oral production 12 , contributing to dysfluencies 28 . The theory of interaction between worse performance on the MMSE and lower level of schooling of the subjects also involves the question of impact of schooling on the course of diseases.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Schooling ranged from four to fifteen years of formal education where MMSE cut-off scores are applied to participants based on level of schooling, with lower cut-offs for individuals with fewer years of schooling. Level of schooling of the subject can impact both the organizing of discourse 27 , and oral production 12 , contributing to dysfluencies 28 . The theory of interaction between worse performance on the MMSE and lower level of schooling of the subjects also involves the question of impact of schooling on the course of diseases.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some authors have suggested that changes in working memory impact language processing and consequently sentence comprehension. This suggests that a failure in understanding complex sentences may stem from an impairment in short-term memory (20) . In addition, tasks which involve working memory may be influenced by schooling (21,22) .…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Language and communication disturbances suffered by AD patients include [276] word recall and word-finding difficulties Pitch, standard deviation of pitch, max and min pitch, intensity, standard deviation of intensity, max and min intensity, period mean, period standard deviation, and root mean square amplitude, shimmer, local jitter, noise-to-harmonics ratio, harmonics-to-noise ratio and autocorrelation, fraction of locally unvoiced frames, degree of voice breaks HFD Max, min, variance, SD [277][278][279][280], repetitions during speech [277][278][279]281], loss of both reading and writing skills [280], problems to follow a conversation due to deterioration in concentration and comprehension skills [279,280] and decline in non-verbal communication skills [282]. These problems are present from the very early stages of the disease, and progress and worsen at the same time that the cognitive decline [276,283].…”
Section: Speechmentioning
confidence: 99%