A computerized technique to assess language use patterns in patients with frontotemporal dementia

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 127-144

  Pakhomov, Serguei V S ^a   Smith, Glenn E ^b   Marino, Susan ^a   Birnbaum, Angela ^a   Graff Radford, Neill ^c   Caselli, Richard ^d   Boeve, Bradley ^b   Knopman, David S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Entropy; Frontotemporal lobar degeneration; Perplexity; Semantic dementia; Statistical language modeling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH RATE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 75149166966     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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