Decision Making Cognition in Primary Progressive Aphasia
We sought to investigate the decision making profile of Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) by assessing patients diagnosed with this disease (n = 10), patients diagnosed with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD, n = 35), and matched controls (n = 14) using the Iowa Gambling Task, a wide...
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| author | Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht Teresa Torralva María Roca Daniela Szenkman Agustin Ibanez Pablo Richly Mariángeles Pose Facundo Manes |
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| description | We sought to investigate the decision making profile of Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) by assessing patients diagnosed with this disease (n = 10), patients diagnosed with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD, n = 35), and matched controls (n = 14) using the Iowa Gambling Task, a widely used test that mimics real-life decision making. Participants were also evaluated with a complete neuropsychological battery. Patients with PPA were unable to adopt an advantageous strategy on the IGT, which resulted in a flat performance, different to that exhibited by both controls (who showed advantageous decision making) and bvFTD patients (who showed risk-appetitive behavior). The decision making profile of PPA patients was not associated with performance on language tasks and did not differ between sub-variants of the disease (namely, semantic dementia and progressive nonfluent aphasia). Investigating decision making in PPA is crucial both from a theoretical perspective, as it can shed light about the way in which language interacts with other cognitive functions, as well as a clinical standpoint, as it could lead to a more objective detection of impairments of decision making deficits in this condition. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-916773d37a8f4f6a8bc0bf2b8a1bdae72025-02-03T00:58:53ZengWileyBehavioural Neurology0953-41801875-85842012-01-01251455210.3233/BEN-2012-0352Decision Making Cognition in Primary Progressive AphasiaEzequiel Gleichgerrcht0Teresa Torralva1María Roca2Daniela Szenkman3Agustin Ibanez4Pablo Richly5Mariángeles Pose6Facundo Manes7Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Buenos Aires, ArgentinaInstitute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Buenos Aires, ArgentinaInstitute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Buenos Aires, ArgentinaInstitute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Buenos Aires, ArgentinaInstitute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Buenos Aires, ArgentinaInstitute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Buenos Aires, ArgentinaInstitute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Buenos Aires, ArgentinaInstitute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Buenos Aires, ArgentinaWe sought to investigate the decision making profile of Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) by assessing patients diagnosed with this disease (n = 10), patients diagnosed with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD, n = 35), and matched controls (n = 14) using the Iowa Gambling Task, a widely used test that mimics real-life decision making. Participants were also evaluated with a complete neuropsychological battery. Patients with PPA were unable to adopt an advantageous strategy on the IGT, which resulted in a flat performance, different to that exhibited by both controls (who showed advantageous decision making) and bvFTD patients (who showed risk-appetitive behavior). The decision making profile of PPA patients was not associated with performance on language tasks and did not differ between sub-variants of the disease (namely, semantic dementia and progressive nonfluent aphasia). Investigating decision making in PPA is crucial both from a theoretical perspective, as it can shed light about the way in which language interacts with other cognitive functions, as well as a clinical standpoint, as it could lead to a more objective detection of impairments of decision making deficits in this condition.http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-2012-0352 |
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| title | Decision Making Cognition in Primary Progressive Aphasia |
| title_full | Decision Making Cognition in Primary Progressive Aphasia |
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