Efficacy of the verbal fluency task in patients with Alzheimer's disease

Abstract

The verbal fluency task is a relatively simple task used for screening of dementia in several medical and healthcare settings. Recent advancements in neural function imaging have facilitated comprehensive investigation of the correlation between the brain activity part in task and cognitive functions.In the study of verbal fluency task, there have been numerous researches associated with the number of words recollected, but recently not only the number of words remembered but also the search strategy have been studied.This study aims to outline the characteristics of the verbal fluency task and the performance of patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD); it also aims to elucidate the efficacy and prospects of the verbal fluency task in the diagnosis of dementia.