Topic: verbal fluency

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a multisystemic neurodegenerative disease primarily affecting the motor system. Up to 50 % of patients may experience at least subtle cognitive impairment. The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between respiratory insufficiency and cognitive impairment in ALS patients. Cognitive assessment, clinical and demographic information were retrieved for 75 patients with ALS from the medical records of the Institute of Clinical Neurophysiology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana. All patients underwent clinical examination, including respiratory

Preterm (PT) birth is associated with impaired verbal fluency [1] and verbal processing speed [2]. Interestingly, white matter microstructural alterations in the arcuate fasciculus (AF), superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF), uncinate fasciculus (UF), and inferior frontooccipital fasciculus (IFOF) -tracts, which are suggested to subserve language ability [3] - have been found in PT-born children [4]. We hypothesized that microstructural alterations of these tracts link with verbal fluency and verbal processing speed impairments in PT-born adults.Sixty-three PT- and eighty-one term-born (FT) a