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A review of cognitive and neurolinguistic deficits in Parkinson's disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

Paul A. Watters  and
Jennifer M. Gurd
Paul A. Watters
Affiliation:
, Department of Computing, Macquarie University NSW 2109, AUSTRALIA
Jennifer M. Gurd
Affiliation:
, Neuropsychology Unit, University Department of Clinical Neurology, The Radcliffe Infirmary NHS Trust, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HE, U.K.
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Abstract

Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a neurological disorder which appears to be increasing in prevalence in the Asia-Pacific region among the elderly. Although PD is considered by many as a motor syndrome, its physiological basis in dopaminergic pathways has recently been associated with cognitive and neurolinguistic changes. This paper attempts to synthesise the common threads running through clinical and empirical work which has supported a specific cognitive word-finding deficit in PD. Recent computational accounts of the observed deficits are also reviewed as one way of testing theories of PD-like lexical-semantic errors, and generating empirically-testable hypotheses.

Type
Part IV. Language and Ageing
Information
South Pacific Journal of Psychology , Volume 10 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Asia-Pacific Language Research , 1999 , pp. 112 - 119
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Copyright © University of Papua New Guinea and the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Territory University, Australia 1999

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