Confrontation naming in parkinsonian patients: post-operative anomia revisited.
Forty-three consecutively admitted Parkinsonian patients, of whom over a third had undergone stereotactic surgery about a decade previously, and a small control group were given a confrontation naming task. A number of comparisons were made, under the rubrics of success in naming, types of error and response latency, in an attempt to ascertain whether evidence of post-operative anomia could be detected. No such evidence was found. However, Parkinsonian lesions were shown to exert a constant quantitative effect on performance in the confrontation naming of objects.
D000368:Aged; D000849:Anomia / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001037:Aphasia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D010301:Parkinson Disease, Postencephalitic / Q000601:surgery; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000523:psychology*; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology