Selective sparing of verb naming in a case of severe Alzheimer's disease.
A patient with severe Alzheimer's disease (AD) presented with a severe impairment in naming nouns but selective sparing of the naming of verbs. Her impairment in naming nouns was presented across a wide range of categories investigated. To our knowledge, this is the first case documenting the selective preservation of verb naming in a patient with AD. The implications for the notion of an intrinsic vulnerability of verb naming in AD and for the current knowledge of anatomical correlates of noun/verb processing are discussed.
Robinson
G
G
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery London, Department of Clinical Neuropsychology, UK. G.Robinson@ion.ucl.ac.uk
Rossor
M
M
Cipolotti
L
L
D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D000849:Anomia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D012660:Semantics