En diversas investigaciones académicas se ha señalado a los contenidos mediáticos con carga negativa como responsables de la anomia, apatía o alienación política ciudadanos, aunque también existe evidencia que estos mensajes podrían despertar el interés por asuntos públicos y alentar movilización política. A partir un estudio expostfacto recepciones, analizaron las narrativas diversos grupos el...

BACKGROUND The majority of studies investigating the neural mechanisms underlying treatment-induced recovery in aphasia have focused on the cortical regions associated with language processing. However, the integrity of the white matter connecting these regions may also be crucial to understanding treatment mechanisms. OBJECTIVE This study investigated the integrity of the arcuate fasciculus ...

This study examined how phonological information is represented and retrieved, using analysis of naming errors in anomia. We focused on questions that relate to metrical and segmental information, the types of information each of them contains, and whether they are organised in parallel or serially. Nine Hebrew-speaking individuals with anomia due to phonological output deficit named 200 pictur...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence and nature of global cognitive dysfunction and language deficits in an unselected population based cohort of patients with motor neuron disease (MND). METHODS A battery of neuropsychological and language tests was administered to patients presenting consecutively over a 3 year period to a regional neurology service with a new diagnosis of sporadic motor ...

Purpose: This study sought to determine the effects of, and satisfaction with, intensive computer-assisted treatment for anomia using commercially available software with persons who have chronic aphasia. Method: Six participants with chronic aphasia used eight Parrot Software programs in an intensive 32-hour treatment protocol lasting 4 weeks. The study measured the effect of this treatment on...

This review summarizes clinical and imaging features associated with primary progressive aphasia (PPA). We investigate the hypothesis that these patients can be divided into subgroups of progressive non-fluent aphasia (PNFA) and semantic dementia (SD), based on their linguistic profiles and related imaging studies, and examine whether each of these major subgroups can be further subdivided. We ...

This paper describes the case of an anomic patient (FH) who is impaired at naming pictures of objects but has no difficulties in recalling the names of familiar people. Even though his performance on McKenna's (1997) Category Specific Naming Test was at the first percentile, he consistently recalled the names of familiar people as successfully as controls. It is argued that the pattern of perfo...