title: The naming disorder of dementia of Alzheimer type.
abstract: We studied the characteristics of the naming disorder of dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) in 20 patients, who were divided on the basis of Mini-Mental State scores into a mild and a moderate-severe group. Our results confirmed the presence of a progressive anomia which was sensitive both to word frequency and to image quality. Although DAT patients as a group made a similar proportion of perceptual-recognition and aphasic errors as did our age and education-matched controls, evidence was obtained that suggested that variations in the character of the anomia exist among individual DAT patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Ohio State University, Columbus.
authors.forename: E C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Shuttleworth
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Huber
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D000849:Anomia / Q000523:psychology*; D001037:Aphasia / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008609:Mental Status Schedule; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011930:Reaction Time; D012660:Semantics; D014705:Verbal Behavior