Differential impairment in semantic, phonemic, and action fluency performance in Friedreich's ataxia: Possible evidence of prefrontal dysfunction

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 944-952

  de Nóbrega, Érka ^a   Nieto, Antonieta ^a   Barroso, José ^a   Montón, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b NSC University Hospital   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cerebellar ataxia; Cerebellum; Cognition; Executive functions; Language; Verb generation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PHONEME; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VERBALIZATION;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 35448932292     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617707071202     Document Type: Article

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