Robinson, G. & Ceslis, A. (2014). An unusual presentation of probable dementia: Rhyming, associations, and verbal
disinhibition. J Neuropsychol. doi: 10.1111/jnp.12041. [Epub ahead of print]
We report a case of probable Alzheimer's disease who presented with the unusual
feature of disinhibited rhyming. Core language skills were largely intact but
generative language was characterized by semantic-based associations, evident in
tangential and associative content, and phonology-based associations, evident in
rhyming, in the context of prominent executive dysfunction. We suggest this
pattern is underpinned by a failure to terminate or inhibit verbal associations
resulting in a 'loosening' of associations at the level of conceptual preparation
for spoken language.
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