617
Views
33
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
COGNITION

Semantic deficits in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

, , , , , , , & show all
Pages 46-53 | Received 25 Aug 2014, Accepted 09 Nov 2014, Published online: 27 Dec 2014

References

  • Phukan J, Elamin M, Bede P, Jordan N, Gallagher L, Byrne S, et al. The syndrome of cognitive impairment in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a population based study. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry. 2012; 83:102–8.
  • Ringholz GM, Appel SH, Bradshaw M, Cooke NA, Mosnik DM, Schulz PE. Prevalence and patterns of cognitive impairment in sporadic ALS. Neurology. 2005; 65: 586–90.
  • Lillo P, Savage S, Mioshi E, Kiernan MC, Hodges JR. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia: a behavioural and cognitive continuum. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: official publication of the World Federation of Neurology Research Group on Motor Neuron Diseases. 2012;13:102–9.
  • Strong MJ, Lomen-Hoerth C, Caselli RJ, Bigio EH, Yang W. Cognitive impairment, frontotemporal dementia, and the motor neuron diseases. Annals of Neurology. 2003;54 (Suppl 5):S20–3.
  • Lomen-Hoerth C. Clinical Phenomenology and Neuroimaging Correlates in ALS-FTD. J Mol Neurosci. 2011;45: 656–62.
  • Murray ME, DeJesus-Hernandez M, Rutherford NJ, Baker M, Duara R, Graff-Radford NR, et al. Clinical and neuropathologic heterogeneity of c9FTD/ALS associated with hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9orf72. Acta Neuropathol. 2011;122:673–90.
  • Renton AE, Majounie E, Waite A, Simon-Sanchez J, Rollinson S, Gibbs JR, et al. A Hexanucleotide Repeat Expansion in C9orf72 Is the Cause of Chromosome 9p21-Linked ALS-FTD. Neuron. 2011;72:257–68.
  • Brouwers N, Sleegers K, Engelborghs S, Maurer-Stroh S, Gijselinck I, van der Zee J, et al. Genetic variability in progranulin contributes to risk for clinically diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease. Neurology. 2008;71:656–64.
  • Hodges JR, Patterson K. Semantic dementia: a unique clinicopathological syndrome. Lancet Neurology. 2007;6: 1004–14.
  • Savage S, Hsieh S, Leslie F, Foxe D, Piguet O, Hodges JR. Distinguishing Subtypes in Primary Progressive Aphasia: Application of the Sydney Language Battery. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders. 2013;35:208–18.
  • Abrahams S, Leigh PN, Harvey A, Vythelingum GN, Grise D, Goldstein LH. Verbal fluency and executive dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Neuropsychologia. 2000;38:734–47.
  • Strong MJ, Grace GM, Freedman M, Lomen-Hoerth C, Woolley S, Goldstein LH, et al. Consensus criteria for the diagnosis of frontotemporal cognitive and behavioural syndromes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: official publication of the World Federation of Neurology Research Group on Motor Neuron Diseases. 2009;10:131–46.
  • Bak TH, Hodges JR. Motor neuron disease, dementia and aphasia: coincidence, co-occurrence or continuum? Journal of Neurology. 2001;248:260.
  • Lillo P, Mioshi E, Burrell JR, Kiernan MC, Hodges JR, Hornberger M. Grey and white matter changes across the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal dementia continuum. PLoS One. 2012;7:e43993.
  • Brooks BR, Miller RG, Swash M, Munsat TL, Gr WFNR. El Escorial revisited: revised criteria for the diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Amyotroph Lateral Scler. 2000;1:293–9.
  • de Carvalho M, Dengler R, Eisen A, England JD, Kaji R, Kimura J, et al. Electrodiagnostic criteria for diagnosis of ALS. Clin Neurophysiol. 2008;119:497–503.
  • Rascovsky K, Hodges JR, Knopman D, Mendez MF, Kramer JH, Neuhaus J, et al. Sensitivity of revised diagnostic criteria for the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia. Brain. 2011;134:2456–77.
  • Neary D, Snowden JS, Gustafson L, Passant U, Stuss D, Black S, et al. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration: a consensus on clinical diagnostic criteria. Neurology. 1998;51: 1546–54.
  • Gorno-Tempini ML, Hillis AE, Weintraub S, Kertesz A, Mendez M, Cappa SF, et al. Classification of primary progressive aphasia and its variants. Neurology. 2011;76: 1006–14.
  • Lovibond PF, Lovibond SH. The Structure of Negative Emotional States - Comparison of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (Dass) with the Beck Depression and Anxiety Inventories. Behav Res Ther. 1995;33:335–43.
  • Cedarbaum JM, Stambler N, Malta E, Fuller C, Hilt D, Thurmond B, et al. The ALSFRS-R: a revised ALS functional rating scale that incorporates assessments of respiratory function. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 1999; 169:13–21.
  • Mioshi E, Dawson K, Mitchell J, Arnold R, Hodges JR. The Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination-Revised (ACE-R): a brief cognitive test battery for dementia screening. Int J Geriatr Psych. 2006;21:1078–85.
  • Mioshi E, Lillo P, Yew B, Hsieh S, Savage S, Hodges JR, et al. Cortical atrophy in ALS is critically associated with neuropsychiatric and cognitive changes. Neurology. 2013;80:1117–23.
  • Rakowicz WP, Hodges JR. Dementia and aphasia in motor neuron disease: an under-recognized association? J Neurol Neurosur Ps. 1998;65:881–9.
  • Bak TH, Hodges JR. The effects of motor neuron disease on language: further evidence. Brain Lang. 2004;89:354–61.
  • Taylor LJ, Brown RG, Tsermentseli S, Al-Chalabi A, Shaw CE, Ellis CM, et al. Is language impairment more common than executive dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis? Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. 2013;84:494–8.
  • Godbolt AK, Josephs KA, Revesz T, Warrington EK, Lantos P, King A, et al. Sporadic and familial dementia with ubiquitin-positive tau-negative inclusions: clinical features of one histopathological abnormality underlying frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Arch Neurol-Chicago. 2005;62:1097–101.
  • Snowden JS. Semantic dysfunction in frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Dement Geriatr Cogn. 1999;10:33–6.
  • Mummery CJ, Patterson K, Hodges JR, Wise RJ. Generating ‘tiger’ as an animal name or a word beginning with T: differences in brain activation. Proceedings Biological Sciences/The Royal Society. 1996;263:989–95.
  • Coon EA, Sorenson EJ, Whitwell JL, Knopman DS, Josephs KA. Predicting survival in frontotemporal dementia with motor neuron disease. Neurology. 2011;76:1886–93.
  • Bozeat S, Ralph MAL, Patterson K, Garrard P, Hodges JR. Non-verbal semantic impairment in semantic dementia. Neuropsychologia. 2000;38:1207–15.
  • Ralph ML, McClelland J, Patterson K, Galton C, Hodges J. No right to speak? The relationship between object naming and semantic impairment: neuropsychological evidence and a computational model. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2001;13:341–56.
  • Patterson K, Nestor PJ, Rogers TT. Where do you know what you know? The representation of semantic knowledge in the human brain. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2007;8:976–87.
  • Hsieh S, Hornberger M, Piguet O, Hodges JR. Neural basis of music knowledge: evidence from the dementias. Brain. 2011;134:2523–34.
  • Vandenbulcke M, Peeters R, Fannes K, Vandenberghe R. Knowledge of visual attributes in the right hemisphere. Nat Neurosci. 2006;9:964–70.
  • Kassubek J, Unrath A, Huppertz HJ, Lule D, Ethofer T, Sperfeld AD, et al. Global brain atrophy and corticospinal tract alterations in ALS, as investigated by voxel based morphometry of 3-D MRI. Amyotroph Lateral Scler. 2005; 6:213–20.
  • Rogers TT, Ralph MAL, Garrard P, Bozeat S, McClelland JL, Hodges JR, et al. Structure and deterioration of semantic memory: a neuropsychological and computational investigation. Psychol Rev. 2004;111:205–35.
  • Abrahams S, Goldstein LH, Suckling J, Ng V, Simmons A, Chitnis X, et al. Frontotemporal white matter changes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. J Neurol. 2005;252: 321–31.
  • Abrahams S, Goldstein LH, Kew JJM, Brooks DJ, Lloyd CM, Frith CD, et al. Frontal lobe dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a PET study. Brain. 1996;119:2105–20.
  • Ambikairajah A, Devenney E, Flanagan E, Yew B, Mioshi E, Kiernan MC, et al. A visual MRI atrophy rating scale for the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal dementia continuum. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener. 2014;15:226–34.
  • Smith SM. Fast robust automated brain extraction. Human Brain Mapping. 2002;17:143–55.
  • Zhang YY, Brady M, Smith S. Segmentation of brain MR images through a hidden Markov random field model and the expectation-maximization algorithm. Ieee T Med Imaging. 2001;20:45–57.
  • Andersson JLR, Jenkinson M, Smith S. Non-linear registration aka FMRIB Technical Report TR07JA2http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/analysis/techrep.: Analysis Group of the University of Oxford; 2007.
  • Smith SM, Nichols TE. Threshold-free cluster enhancement: addressing problems of smoothing, threshold dependence and localization in cluster inference. Neuroimage. 2009;44: 83–98.
  • Nichols TE, Holmes AP. Non-parametric permutation tests for functional neuroimaging: a primer with examples. Human Brain Mapping. 2002;15:1–25.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.