PSYC31H3 Lecture Notes - Circumlocution, Semantic Dementia, Vocabulary
8 Mar 2013
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Consists of 60 large ink drawings of items ranging in familiarity from such common ones as a. Tree and pencil at the beginning of the test to sphinx and trellis . For patients with dementia sometimes semantic or phonetic cues are required. Test results show a slight drop in their late 70"s. Education level is a contributing factor, no sex differences. Naming impairments in aphasic patients, significantly more perseveration errors than patients with right hemisphere damage. Typically naming deficits occur in patients with left hippocampal damage. Progressive aphasia producing naming errors with damage to the temporal lobes. Bnt is also widely used in dementia assessment as a sensitive indicator of both the presence and the degree of deterioration. Alzheimer"s patients have both lexical retrieval deficits and semantic deficits. The test is continued until the subject fail 5, 6, or 3 times consecutively or until the list has been completed.
