The patient presented with progressive cognitive deficits of various modalities, including dyscalculia, decline of short-term memory, verbal fluency and abilities of visual construction.
"I thought he would be the perfect columnist because he has the historian's triumvirate - an eye for detail, fluency and an ability to set things in context".
Tests assessing episodic recall, semantic knowledge, semantic fluency, and visuospatial ability were administered to 1000 non-demented adults (initially aged 35 80 years), participating in the Betula Project at three occasions over a 10-year period.
No significant relationships between hearing loss and impaired verbal fluency and naming ability were found in the present study, regardless of the degree of cognitive impairment.
In Germany, a dyslexia diagnosis is based mainly on reading fluency and spelling abilities, while in the UK it relies mainly on reading accuracy.
We found a significant improvement in mood profile, physical function, phonemic fluency, and attention abilities in KP, but not KD, subjects compared with ESRD plus T1D patients.
According to Salthouse, 38 most age-related cognitive deteriorations are at least partially attributable to declines in information processing speed, which affects episodic and working memory, verbal fluency and reasoning abilities.
Inclusion criteria were ages between 18 and 65 years, residency in Pune, conversational fluency in Marathi and ability to physically and mentally withstand an interview.
Moreover, the general effects of genes appear to extend beyond specific learning abilities such as reading and mathematics to other cognitive abilities such as verbal abilities (e.g. vocabulary and word fluency) and non-verbal abilities (e.g. spatial and memory).
We hypothesized that testosterone would decrease verbal memory and verbal fluency and increase spatial ability compared with a placebo.
