There were no group effects on most verbal fluency tasks (except impairment of schizophrenia patients on one subscale of category fluency).
Most bakers attempt fluency in the two major doughnut languages, cake and yeast.
In both groups, postoperative neuropsychologic alterations were most marked in fluency, arithmetic, and memory performance.
Another analogue is President Bush, who is very different from Spitzer in most ways — temperament, ideology, fluency, firepower — but who also has the courage of his convictions, naysayers be damned.
The present study investigated the short- and long-term retest reliability of brain activity measured with functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) during verbal fluency, the most published cognitive task within fNIRS literature.
In addition, most VMS programs require fluency in English, documentation of immunizations, and completion of United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1; some have additional requirements.
Therefore, younger children (range at surgery: 4 10 years old) were most immature for semantic fluency before surgery, and consequently presented difficulties in organizing this function.
Lesions studies have shown that patients with left dorsolateral and striatal lesions were the most impaired in phonologic fluency performance (right dorsolateral or inferior medial frontal lesions patients were not significantly affected).
Finally, the cognitive change profile in our study shows predominantly a change in verbal memory, which does not reflect the core profile of SVD where deficits in executive function, such as speed and fluency, are most prominent.
