Language impairments in Alzheimer´s disease: What changes can be found between mild and moderate stages of the disease?

Objective: To investigate how language deteriorates over the Alzheimer's Disease course.

Methods: A cross-sectional, observational study was carried out. 35 patients diagnosed with dementia due to AD using the NINCDS-ARDRA criteria and undergoing treatment for AD with a therapeutic dose of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors were assessed by the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (BDAE).

Language impairment in the moderate stage of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease.

Background: During the moderate stage of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease (AD), language disorder is more evident and it impacts on communication. An overview of language impairment could be helpful to find compensatory communication strategies for these patients.

Objective: To identify all language impairments among patients with moderate-stage of AD.

Cognitive and motor effects of Kinect-based games training in people with and without Parkinson disease: A preliminary study.

Objective: Purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of training with six commercial Xbox Kinect games on cognitive and motor aspects in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and to compare the effects with a group of paired healthy subjects.

Methods: This study was a quasi-experimental, controlled trial. Eight individuals with PD (mean age 68.

Evaluation of macrolinguistic aspects of the oral discourse in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Introduction: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a degenerative syndrome that impairs cognitive functioning, including speech and language. Discourse can be used to analyze language processing, which is organized into microlinguistic and macrolinguistic dimensions.

Objectives: To identify the occurrence of changes in the macrolinguistic dimension of oral discourse in AD patients.

Analysis of word number and content in discourse of patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease.

Unlabelled: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by impairments in memory and other cognitive functions such as language, which can be affected in all aspects including discourse. A picture description task is considered an effective way of obtaining a discourse sample whose key feature is the ability to retrieve appropriate lexical items. There is no consensus on findings showing that performance in content processing of spoken discourse deteriorates from the mildest phase of AD.

Microlinguistic aspects of the oral narrative in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by memory loss and cognitive impairment. Phonological, syntactic, semantic and discursive aspects of language may also be affected. Analysis of micro- and macrolinguistic abilities of discourse may assist in diagnosing AD.