Semantic fluency: A sensitive marker for cognitive impairment in children with heavy diarrhea burdens?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 682-686

  Oriá, Reinaldo B ^a,c   Costa, Carlos Maurício C ^c   Lima, Aldo A M ^a   Patrick, Peter D ^b   Guerrant, Richard L ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; MALNUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; TRICHURIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; MALNUTRITION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPEECH;

EID: 70349753103     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.05.013     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. do J.V., and Shimamura A.P. Letter and category fluency in patients with frontal lobe lesions. Neuropsychology 12 (1998) 259-267
2. Ruff R.M., Light R.H., Parker S.B., and Levin H.S. The psychological construct of word fluency. Brain Lang 57 (1997) 394-405
3. Riva D., Nichelli F., and Devoti M. Developmental aspects of verbal fluency and confrontation naming in children. Brain Lang 71 (2000) 267-284
4. Ricci P.T., Zelkowicz B.J., Nebes R.D., Meltzer C.C., Mintun M.A., and Becker J.T. Functional neuroanatomy of semantic memory: recognition of semantic associations. NeuroImage 9 (1999) 88-96
5. Thompson-Schill S.L., Swick D., Farah M.J., D'Esposito M., Kan I.P., and Knight R.T. Verb generation in patients with focal frontal lesions: a neuropsychological test of neuroimaging findings. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 95 (1998) 15855-15860
6. Jurado M.A., Mataro M., Verger K., Bartumeus F., and Junque C. Phonemic and semantic fluencies in traumatic brain injury patients with focal frontal lesions. Brain Inj 14 (2000) 789-795
7. Royall D.R., Lauterbach E.C., Cummings J.L., et al. Executive control function: a review of its promise and challenges for clinical research. A report from the Committee on Research of the American Neuropsychiatric Association. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 14 (2002) 377-405
8. Funahashi S. Neuronal mechanisms of executive control by the prefrontal cortex. Neurosci Res 39 (2001) 147-165
9. Ewing-Cobbs L., Brookshire B., Scott M.A., and Fletcher J.M. Children's narratives following traumatic brain injury: linguistic structure, cohesion, and thematic recall. Brain Lang 61 (1998) 395-419
10. Rohrer D., Salmon D.P., Wixted J.T., and Paulsen J.S. The disparate effects of Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's disease on semantic memory. Neuropsychology 13 (1999) 381-388
11. Tierney M.C., Black S.E., Szalai J.P., et al. Recognition memory and verbal fluency differentiate probable Alzheimer disease from subcortical ischemic vascular dementia. Arch Neurol 58 (2001) 1654-1659
12. Chan A.S., Butters N., and Salmon D.P. The deterioration of semantic networks in patients with Alzheimer's disease: a cross-sectional study. Neuropsychologia 35 (1997) 241-248
13. Fama R., Sullivan E.V., Shear P.K., et al. Structural brain correlates of verbal and nonverbal fluency measures in Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychology 14 (2000) 29-40
14. Lafosse J.M., Reed B.R., Mungas D., Sterling S.B., Wahbeh H., and Jagust W.J. Fluency and memory differences between ischemic vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychology 11 (1997) 514-522
15. Laatu S., Revonsuo A., Jaykka H., Portin R., and Rinne J.O. Visual object recognition in early Alzheimer's disease: deficits in semantic processing. Acta Neurol Scand 108 (2003) 82-89
16. Barr A., and Brandt J. Word-list generation deficits in dementia. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 18 (1996) 810-822
17. Martin A., Wiggs C.L., Lalonde F., and Mack C. Word retrieval to letter and semantic cues: a double dissociation in normal subjects using interference tasks. Neuropsychologia 32 (1994) 1487-1494
18. Wallesch C.W., Curio N., Galazky I., Jost S., and Synowitz H. The neuropsychology of blunt head injury in the early postacute stage: effects of focal lesions and diffuse axonal injury. J Neurotrauma 18 (2001) 11-20
19. Lambon Ralph M.A., Powell J., Howard D., Whitworth A.B., Garrard P., and Hodges J.R. Semantic memory is impaired in both dementia with Lewy bodies and dementia of Alzheimer's type: a comparative neuropsychological study and literature review. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 70 (2001) 149-156
20. Watson J.M., Balota D.A., and Sergent-Marshall S.D. Semantic, phonological, and hybrid veridical and false memories in healthy older adults and in individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer type. Neuropsychology 15 (2001) 254-267
21. Rohrer D., Wixted J.T., Salmon D.P., and Butters N. Retrieval from semantic memory and its implications for Alzheimer's disease. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 21 (1995) 1127-1139
22. Duke L.M., and Kaszniak A.W. Executive control functions in degenerative dementias: a comparative review. Neuropsychol Rev 10 (2000) 75-99
23. Guerrant D.I., Moore S.R., Lima A.A., Patrick P.D., Schorling J.B., and Guerrant R.L. Association of early childhood diarrhea and cryptosporidiosis with impaired physical fitness and cognitive function four-seven years later in a poor urban community in northeast Brazil. Am J Trop Med Hyg 61 (1999) 707-713
24. Guerrant R.L., Kosek M., Moore S., Lorntz B., Brantley R., and Lima A.A. Magnitude and impact of diarrheal diseases. Arch Med Res 33 (2002) 351-355
25. Niehaus M.D., Moore S.R., Patrick P.D., et al. Early childhood diarrhea is associated with diminished cognitive function 4-7 years later in children in a northeast Brazilian shantytown. Am J Trop Med Hyg 66 (2002) 590-593
26. Patrick P.D., Oria R.B., Madhavan V., Pinkerton R.C., Lorntz B., Lima A.A., and Guerrant R.L. Limitations in verbal fluency following heavy burdens of early childhood diarrhea in Brazilian shantytown children. Child Neuropsychol 11 (2005) 233-244
27. Berkman D.S., Lescano A.G., Gilman R.H., Lopez S.L., and Black M.M. Effects of stunting, diarrhoeal disease, and parasitic infection during infancy on cognition in late childhood: a follow-up study. Lancet 359 (2002) 564-571
28. Chandler A.M., Walker S.P., Connolly K., and Grantham-McGregor S.M. School breakfast improves verbal fluency in undernourished Jamaican children. J Nutr 125 (1995) 894-900
29. Simeon D.T. School feeding in Jamaica: a review of its evaluation. Am J Clin Nutr 67 (1998) 790S-794S
30. Kvalsvig J.D., Cooppan R.M., and Connolly K.J. The effects of parasite infections on cognitive processes in children. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 85 (1991) 551-568
31. Gardner J.M., Grantham-McGregor S., and Baddeley A. Trichuris trichiura infection and cognitive function in Jamaican school children. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 90 (1996) 55-63
32. Nokes C., Grantham-McGregor S.M., Sawyer A.W., Cooper E.S., Robinson B.A., and Bundy D.A. Moderate to heavy infections of Trichuris trichiura affect cognitive function in Jamaican school children. Parasitology 104 Pt 3 (1992) 539-547
33. Simeon D.T., Grantham-McGregor S.M., and Wong M.S. Trichuris trichiura infection and cognition in children: results of a randomized clinical trial. Parasitology 110 Pt 4 (1995) 457-464
34. Levin H.S., Song J., Ewing-Cobbs L., Chapman S.B., and Mendelsohn D. Word fluency in relation to severity of closed head injury, associated frontal brain lesions, and age at injury in children. Neuropsychologia 39 (2001) 122-131
35. Tamm L., Menon V., and Reiss A.L. Maturation of brain function associated with response inhibition. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 41 (2002) 1231-1238
36. Booth J.R., Burman D.D., Meyer J.R., et al. Neural development of selective attention and response inhibition. NeuroImage 20 (2003) 737-751
37. Gleissner U., and Elger C.E. The hippocampal contribution to verbal fluency in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. Cortex 37 (2001) 55-63
38. Henke K., Weber B., Kneifel S., Wieser H.G., and Buck A. Human hippocampus associates information in memory. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 96 (1999) 5884-5889
39. Bronzino J.D., Austin-LaFrance R.J., Mokler D., and Morgane P.J. Effects of prenatal protein malnutrition on hippocampal long-term potentiation in freely moving rats. Exp Neurol 148 (1997) 317-323
40. Levitsky D.A., and Strupp B.J. Malnutrition and the brain: changing concepts, changing concerns. J Nutr 125 (1995) 2212S-2220S
41. Ciaroni S., Cecchini T., Ferri P., et al. Neural precursor proliferation and newborn cell survival in the adult rat dentate gyrus are affected by vitamin E deficiency. Neurosci Res 44 (2002) 369-377
42. Kim M.J., Kim Y., Kim S.A., et al. Increases in cell proliferation and apoptosis in dentate gyrus of anorexia (anx/anx) mice. Neurosci Lett 302 (2001) 109-112
43. Lukoyanov N.V., and Andrade J.P. Behavioral effects of protein deprivation and rehabilitation in adult rats: relevance to morphological alterations in the hippocampal formation. Behav Brain Res 112 (2000) 85-97
44. Fukuda M.T., Francolin-Silva A.L., and Almeida S.S. Early postnatal protein malnutrition affects learning and memory in the distal but not in the proximal cue version of the Morris water maze. Behav Brain Res 133 (2002) 271-277
45. Yanagisawa M., Planel E., Ishiguro K., and Fujita S.C. Starvation induces tau hyperphosphorylation in mouse brain: implications for Alzheimer's disease. FEBS Lett 461 (1999) 329-333
46. Planel E., Miyasaka T., Launey T., et al. Alterations in glucose metabolism induce hypothermia leading to tau hyperphosphorylation through differential inhibition of kinase and phosphatase activities: implications for Alzheimer's disease. J Neurosci 24 (2004) 2401-2411
47. Kruman I.I., Kumaravel T.S., Lohani A., et al. Folic acid deficiency and homocysteine impair DNA repair in hippocampal neurons and sensitize them to amyloid toxicity in experimental models of Alzheimer's disease. J Neurosci 22 (2002) 1752-1762
48. Ribaut-Barassin C., Dupont J.L., Haeberle A.M., et al. Alzheimer's disease proteins in cerebellar and hippocampal synapses during postnatal development and aging of the rat. Neuroscience 120 (2003) 405-423
49. Snowdon D.A., Kemper S.J., Mortimer J.A., Greiner L.H., Wekstein D.R., and Markesbery W.R. Linguistic ability in early life and cognitive function and Alzheimer's disease in late life. Findings from the Nun Study. JAMA 275 (1996) 528-532
50. Schwartz S., Baldo J., Graves R.E., and Brugger P. Pervasive influence of semantics in letter and category fluency: a multidimensional approach. Brain Lang 87 (2003) 400-411
51. Moore S.R., Lima A.A., Conaway M.R., Schorling J.B., Soares A.M., and Guerrant R.L. Early childhood diarrhoea and helminthiases associate with long-term linear growth faltering. Int J Epidemiol 30 (2001) 1457-1464
52. Lima A.A., Moore S.R., Barboza Jr. M.S., et al. Persistent diarrhea signals a critical period of increased diarrhea burdens and nutritional shortfalls: a prospective cohort study among children in northeastern Brazil. J Infect Dis 181 (2000) 1643-1651
53. Dillingham R., and Guerrant R.L. Childhood stunting: measuring and stemming the staggering costs of inadequate water and sanitation. Lancet 363 (2004) 94-95
54. Abbott R.D., White L.R., Ross G.W., et al. Height as a marker of childhood development and late-life cognitive function: the Honolulu-Asia Aging Study. Pediatrics 102 (1998) 602-609
55. Oria R.B., Patrick P.D., Blackman J.A., Lima A.A., and Guerrant R.L. Role of apolipoprotein E4 in protecting children against early childhood diarrhea outcomes and implications for later development. Med Hypotheses 68 (2007) 1099-1107
56. Oria R.B., Patrick P.D., Zhang H., Lorntz B., Castro Costa C.M., Brito G.A., et al. APOE4 Protects the cognitive development in children with heavy diarrhea burdens in Northeast Brazil. Pediatr Res 57 (2005) 310-316