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language impairment in Alzheimer's disease

Clinical manifestations: 1) initial word-finding difficulties 2) empty speech with a preference for using words such as 'thing' or 'it', or circumlocution around the specific word not recalled 3) anomia a) begins with inability to recognize objects with multiple choice b) progresses to inability to name object despite cues 4) repetition & reading preserved 5) final stages: verbal output limited to echolalia or palilalia

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) language

General

cognitive impairment

References

  1. Kristi Wagner Steh, West Los Angeles VA, GRECC, Dec 2003
  2. Cummings JL, The Neuropsychiatry of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias, Martine Dunitz LTD, Taylor & Francis Group, London (2003)
  3. Mendez MF & Cummings JL, Dementia: A Clinical Approach, Butterworth & Heinemann, Philadelphia (2003)