Sökning: "anomia"
Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade ordet anomia.
1. Word-finding difficulties in left hemisphere stroke, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease - differences in symptom occurrence and effects of anomia treatment
Sammanfattning : Word-finding difficulties, or anomia, are a common symptom in various conditions affecting the brain, such as stroke, multiple sclerosis (MS) or Parkinson’s disease (PD). The aim of this thesis is twofold: (i) to increase our knowledge about the similarities and dissimilarities between the word-finding difficulties associated with different kinds of neurological conditions, and (ii) to evaluate treatment effects of anomia treatment using a method called semantic feature analysis (SFA). LÄS MER
2. Concreteness, Specificity and Emotional Content in Swedish Nouns : Neurocognitive Studies of Word Meaning
Sammanfattning : The present thesis investigated Swedish nouns differing in concreteness, specificity and emotional content using linguistic, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic methods. The focus of Paper I was a semantic analysis of discourse produced by a person with a lesion in visual (left occipital) cortex. LÄS MER
3. When I show the Beatles then you say: ‛Ramones!’ : imaging semantic memory in Alzheimer’s disease and semantic dementia
Sammanfattning : Elderly people contacting the health care system because of suspected dementia very often report word forgetfulness, a clinical condition referred as anomia, often one of the first signs of cognitive decline. Considering the complexity of human language it is no wonder that dementia disorders can affect language processing, which in its turn relies heavily on the intactness of the semantic memory system. LÄS MER
4. On characterisation and diagnosis of frontotemporal lobar degeneration syndromes : with special reference to the progressive aphasias
Sammanfattning : Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common dementing brain disease, with episodic memory impairment as a characteristic early feature. However, not all primary degenerative brain syndromes include prominent deficits in day-to-day memorizing. LÄS MER