Erica Howard

TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that patients with Lewy body dementia (LBD) with likely Alzheimer disease (AD) type copathology are more impaired on confrontation naming than those without likely AD-type copathy.

TL;DR: In this paper , an automated analysis of natural speech as an inexpensive, non-invasive screening tool for AD co-pathology in biologically-confirmed cohorts of Lewy body dementias (LBD) patients with co-occurring Alzheimer's disease (AD) and without (SYN-AD).

TL;DR: This article found that subjects with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD, n = 21) and brain-damaged controls with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) were selectively impaired in indirect relative to direct speech act comprehension, due in part to their social and executive limitations.

TL;DR: Patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia and brain-damaged controls with amnestic mild cognitive impairment are asked to judge simple question-answer dialogues of the form of 'Do you want some cake for dessert?' and related to structural and diffusion MRI results demonstrate that subjects with bvFTD are selectively impaired in indirect relative to direct speech act comprehension.

TL;DR: PS demonstrated selective impairments in complex numbers processing compared to LBSD, and this complex numerical deficit may relate to executive dysfunction and frontal atrophy.