Are Verbal Fluency and Nonliteral Language Comprehension Deficits Related to Depressive Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease?
Depression in Parkinson's disease (PD) is frequently associated with executive deficits, which can influence nonliteral comprehension and lexical access. This study explores whether depressive symptoms in PD modulate verbal fluency and nonliteral language comprehension. Twelve individuals with...
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| author | Christina Tremblay Oury Monchi Carol Hudon Joël Macoir Laura Monetta |
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| description | Depression in Parkinson's disease (PD) is frequently associated with executive deficits, which can influence nonliteral comprehension and lexical access. This study explores whether depressive symptoms in PD modulate verbal fluency and nonliteral language comprehension. Twelve individuals with PD without depressive symptoms, 13 with PD and depressive symptoms (PDDSs), and 13 healthy controls completed a semantic and phonemic verbal fluency task and an indirect speech acts comprehension task. All groups had the same performance in the phonemic fluency task while the PDDS group was impaired in the semantic task. For the indirect speech act comprehension task, no difference was observed between the groups. However, the PDDS group had difficulty answering direct speech act questions. As some language impairments in PD become apparent when depressive symptoms are associated with the disease, it would appear to be important to take the presence of depressive symptoms into account when evaluating language abilities in PD. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-82259cadc4e94fb180b1e644f1fe63d72025-02-03T01:02:48ZengWileyParkinson's Disease2090-80832042-00802012-01-01201210.1155/2012/308501308501Are Verbal Fluency and Nonliteral Language Comprehension Deficits Related to Depressive Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease?Christina Tremblay0Oury Monchi1Carol Hudon2Joël Macoir3Laura Monetta4Département de Réadaptation, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, QC, G1V 0A6, CanadaFunctional Neuroimaging Unit, Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Montréal, QC, H3W 1W5, CanadaCentre de Recherche Université Laval Robert Giffard, 2601 Rue de la Canardière, Québec, QC, G1J 2G3, CanadaDépartement de Réadaptation, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, QC, G1V 0A6, CanadaDépartement de Réadaptation, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, QC, G1V 0A6, CanadaDepression in Parkinson's disease (PD) is frequently associated with executive deficits, which can influence nonliteral comprehension and lexical access. This study explores whether depressive symptoms in PD modulate verbal fluency and nonliteral language comprehension. Twelve individuals with PD without depressive symptoms, 13 with PD and depressive symptoms (PDDSs), and 13 healthy controls completed a semantic and phonemic verbal fluency task and an indirect speech acts comprehension task. All groups had the same performance in the phonemic fluency task while the PDDS group was impaired in the semantic task. For the indirect speech act comprehension task, no difference was observed between the groups. However, the PDDS group had difficulty answering direct speech act questions. As some language impairments in PD become apparent when depressive symptoms are associated with the disease, it would appear to be important to take the presence of depressive symptoms into account when evaluating language abilities in PD.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/308501 |
| spellingShingle | Christina Tremblay Oury Monchi Carol Hudon Joël Macoir Laura Monetta Are Verbal Fluency and Nonliteral Language Comprehension Deficits Related to Depressive Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease? Parkinson's Disease |
| title | Are Verbal Fluency and Nonliteral Language Comprehension Deficits Related to Depressive Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease? |
| title_full | Are Verbal Fluency and Nonliteral Language Comprehension Deficits Related to Depressive Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease? |
| title_fullStr | Are Verbal Fluency and Nonliteral Language Comprehension Deficits Related to Depressive Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Are Verbal Fluency and Nonliteral Language Comprehension Deficits Related to Depressive Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease? |
| title_short | Are Verbal Fluency and Nonliteral Language Comprehension Deficits Related to Depressive Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease? |
| title_sort | are verbal fluency and nonliteral language comprehension deficits related to depressive symptoms in parkinson s disease |
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