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Validation of Videoconference Administration of Picture Description From the Western Aphasia Battery-Revised in Neurotypical Canadian French Speakers

PURPOSE: During the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians and researchers have increasingly used remote online assessments to pursue their activities, but mostly with tests not validated for videoconference administration. This study aims to validate the …

A Standardized Set of 380 Pictures for Lebanese Arabic: Norms for Name Agreement, Conceptual Familiarity, Imageability, and Subjective Frequency

Research on language processing requires language-specific norms of pictorial and linguistic experimental stimuli across different psycholinguistic variables. Such normative data have not yet been collected for Lebanese Arabic (LA), an Arabic …

Differential Patterns of Domain-Specific Cognitive Complaints and Awareness Across the Alzheimer's Disease Spectrum

Background: Characterizing self- and informant-reported cognitive complaints, as well as awareness of cognitive decline (ACD), is useful for an early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, complaints and ACD related to cognitive functions …

Self-reported word-finding complaints are associated with cerebrospinal fluid amyloid beta and atrophy in cognitively normal older adults

INTRODUCTION: Self-reported word-finding difficulties are among the most frequent complaints in cognitively normal (CN) older adults. However, the clinical significance is still debated. METHODS: We selected 239 CN from the Alzheimer's Disease …

Alzheimer, MCI and PPA: language disorders analyses and their anatomical bases

Understanding and differentiate between the nature of language deficits and the anatomical features of Alzheimer disease (AD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and primary progressive aphasia

Dynamics of language recovery in post-stroke aphasia: A longitudinal neuroimaging study

A unique opportunity to study the brain mechanisms that support language improvement in post-stroke aphasia

SemantiQc: Norms of familiarity concept and auditory and visual perceptual strength

The provision, for the first time, of authentic reference data on these semantic and linguistic characteristics to a french canadian population

Clinical, Anatomical, and Pathological Features in the Three Variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia: A Review

Primary progressive aphasias (PPA) are neurodegenerative diseases clinically characterized by an early and relatively isolated language impairment. Three main clinical variants, namely the nonfluent/agrammatic variant (nfvPPA), the semantic variant …

Test-Retest Reliability of Diffusion Measures Extracted Along White Matter Language Fiber Bundles Using HARDI-Based Tractography

High angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI)-based tractography has been increasingly used in longitudinal studies on white matter macro- and micro-structural changes in the language network during language acquisition and in language …

Dysexecutive Symptoms in Primary Progressive Aphasia: Beyond Diagnostic Criteria

Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a heterogeneous neurodegenerative condition in which the most prominent clinical feature is language difficulties. Other cognitive domains have been described to remain unaffected at the early stages of the …