PMID: 9529823Apr 8, 1998Paper

Clustering and switching on verbal fluency tests in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS
A K TroyerM Freedman

Abstract

Two components of verbal fluency performance--clustering (i.e., generating words within subcategories) and switching (i.e., shifting between subcategories)--were examined in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT), patients with dementia with Parkinson's disease (DPD), nondemented patients with Parkinson's disease (NPD), and demographically matched controls. The DAT and DPD groups were impaired in the number of words generated on both phonemic and semantic fluency. The DAT group produced smaller clusters on both tasks and switched less often on semantic fluency than controls. The DPD group switched less often on both tasks and produced smaller clusters on phonemic fluency than controls. The NPD group was not impaired on any fluency variable. Thus, the total number of words generated on phonemic and semantic fluency did not discriminate the dementia groups from their respective control groups, but measures of clustering and switching did. This differential pattern of performance provides evidence for the potential usefulness of measures of switching and clustering in the assessment of dementia.

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