Sindemia, anomia social y complejidad de la emergencia del COVID-19 / Syndemic, social anomie and complexity of the COVID-19 emergency

La pandemia de COVID-19, declarada en el 2020 por la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), se ha constituido en una de las crisis de mayor impacto para la salud y sus determinantes sociales. Las sindemias se presentan cuando la inequidad sanitaria de la biopolítica predominante manifiesta su control sobre la vida. Para hacer frente a esta sindemia, es necesario comprender, mejorar y tomar en cuenta las determinantes sociales de la salud, con el propósito de propiciar las condiciones del bienestar de la población y reducir las inequidades. La presencia de entornos no saludables, la estigmatización de los enfermos o de los prestadores de servicios de salud, manifestada en actos de agresión y violencia, revelan la anomia social; el momento en que el estado pierde su capacidad de regulación normativa, y que tiene como resultado la resistencia individual y colectiva que repercute en la labor preventiva.El reconocimiento de la sindemia por parte de los actores políticos, sociales y del ciudadano común debe asentarse en un escenario más igualitario y reconsiderar las conductas anómicas. Es necesario empoderar a la población, fomentar la ciudadanía, así como el uso de la evidencia científica, reconfigurar los sistemas de atención a la salud e integrar a la población en las decisiones asumidas e instrumentadas por el estado.La atención de la sindemia y la anomia social, producidas por la pandemia e intensificadas por factores socioeconómicos, requiere la solidaridad ciudadana y la reformulación de la biopolítica de estado

The COVID-19 pandemic, declared in 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO), has become one of the crises with the greatest impact on health and its social determinants. Syndemics appear when the health inequity of the prevailing biopolitics displays its power over life. In order to face this syndemic, it is necessary to understand, improve and consider the social determinants of health, with the purpose of restoring the well-being conditions of the population and thus reducing social inequities. The presence of unhealthy environments, the stigmatization of the sick or of health service providers manifested through acts of aggression and violence, reveal social anomie; a moment when the state loses its capacity for normative regulation, which can result in forms of individual and collective resistance that have an impact on preventive work.The recognition of the syndemic by the political and social actors and the common citizen must move towards a more egalitarian scenario and reassess anomic behaviors. It is necessary to empower the population, promote citizenship, as well as the use of scientific evidence, reconfigure health care systems and, above all, fully integrate the population into the decisions taken and implemented by the state.Actions against the syndemic and the social anomie resulting from the pandemic and exacerbated by economic-social factors, requires citizen convergence and the reformulation of state biopolitics.

Argentinean Psycholinguistic Picture Naming Test in color.

Color has demonstrated to have an influence on picture naming tasks. Objects with high color diagnosticity are recalled faster than objects with low value. That is why the Argentinean Psycholinguistic Picture Naming Test in color (PAPDIC in Spanish) was designed. The items and semantic cues were built considering local psycholinguistic norms. A series of psychometric analyses were performed on a sample of patients with focal brain damage with (n = 11) and without (n = 14) aphasia, a sample of patients with degenerative disease (n = 46) and two samples of healthy participants (young n = 27, old n = 50). Evidence of convergent validity was obtained through the correlation with the brief Boston Naming Test (r = 0.871; p < .001); of criteria validity by means of contrasted groups analysis (t = 4.059, p < .001), and through the ROC curve analysis (AUC = 0.993). Scores' reliability was explored by means of an internal consistency analysis (KR20 = 0.905). These results indicate that the PAPDIC is a promising color naming test which can be applied in the field of clinical neuropsychology to identify anomia. This test has several advantages in comparison with the available naming tests in Argentina.

Playing With BEARS: Balancing Effort, Accuracy, and Response Speed in a Semantic Feature Verification Anomia Treatment Game.

Purpose The purpose of this study was to develop and pilot a novel treatment framework called BEARS (Balancing Effort, Accuracy, and Response Speed). People with aphasia (PWA) have been shown to maladaptively balance speed and accuracy during language tasks. BEARS is designed to train PWA to balance speed-accuracy trade-offs and improve system calibration (i.e., to adaptively match system use with its current capability), which was hypothesized to improve treatment outcomes by maximizing retrieval practice and minimizing error learning. In this study, BEARS was applied in the context of a semantically oriented anomia treatment based on semantic feature verification (SFV). Method Nine PWA received 25 hr of treatment in a multiple-baseline single-case series design. BEARS + SFV combined computer-based SFV with clinician-provided BEARS metacognitive training. Naming probe accuracy, efficiency, and proportion of "pass" responses on inaccurate trials were analyzed using Bayesian generalized linear mixed-effects models. Generalization to discourse and correlations between practice efficiency and treatment outcomes were also assessed. Results Participants improved on naming probe accuracy and efficiency of treated and untreated items, although untreated item gains could not be distinguished from the effects of repeated exposure. There were no improvements on discourse performance, but participants demonstrated improved system calibration based on their performance on inaccurate treatment trials, with an increasing proportion of "pass" responses compared to paraphasia or timeout nonresponses. In addition, levels of practice efficiency during treatment were positively correlated with treatment outcomes, suggesting that improved practice efficiency promoted greater treatment generalization and improved naming efficiency. Conclusions BEARS is a promising, theoretically motivated treatment framework for addressing the interplay between effort, accuracy, and processing speed in aphasia. This study establishes the feasibility of BEARS + SFV and provides preliminary evidence for its efficacy. This study highlights the importance of considering processing efficiency in anomia treatment, in addition to performance accuracy. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.14935812.

Intensive naming training for low-educated demented and non-demented elderly / Treino intensivo de nomeação para idosos de baixa escolaridade com e sem demência

ABSTRACT. Complaints about naming difficulties may be common in the elderly. In dementia, anomia is the most frequent symptom of language disorders. Naming training can improve lexical access and promote better quality of communication for elderly with or without dementia. Objective: To analyze naming scores, response time and the generalization of responses for naming of neurotypical and demented low-educated older adults before and after receiving a naming training program, with and without oral comprehension stimulation. Method: Twenty elderly participants, 10 with dementia and 10 neurotypical, were included after interview, screening for cognition and functionality. The naming training was based on retrieval practice and carried out in 5 sessions. Half of the group underwent exclusive naming training, while the other half received naming training associated with oral comprehension stimulation. Results: Elderly people with dementia performed better after training for scores on oral naming and comprehension of oral words, except for object manipulation. The response time for naming trained and untrained stimuli was also better for elderly people with dementia. After the intervention, neurotypical individuals performed statistically better in comprehension time and in the score in oral naming, comprehension of oral words and object manipulation, for trained and untrained words. Conclusion: Naming training, exclusive or associated with oral comprehension, using the recovery technique benefits the language performance of neurotypical and demented elderly, and provides improvements even for untrained stimuli.

RESUMO. A queixa de dificuldades para nomear pode ser comum em idosos. Na demência, a anomia é a manifestação mais frequente dos transtornos de linguagem. O treino de nomeação beneficia o acesso lexical e promove maior qualidade de comunicação para idosos com ou sem demência. Objetivo: Analisar as respostas de nomeação, o tempo de resposta e a generalização das respostas de nomeação de idosos neurotípicos e com demência de baixa escolaridade antes e após um treinamento de nomeação, com e sem estimulação da compreensão oral. Método: Participaram deste estudo 20 idosos, 10 com demência e 10 neurotípicos, incluídos após entrevista, rastreio de cognição e funcionalidade. O treinamento de nomeação foi baseado na prática de recuperação e realizado em cinco sessões. Metade do grupo foi submetido ao treino de nomeação exclusivo e metade ao treinamento associado à estimulação de compreensão oral. Resultado: Idosos com demência apresentaram melhor desempenho após o treinamento para pontuações na nomeação oral e compreensão de palavras orais, exceto para manipulação de objetos. O tempo de resposta para nomear estímulos treinados e não treinados também foi melhor para idosos com demência. Após a intervenção, os indivíduos neurotípicos tiveram desempenho estatisticamente melhor no tempo de compreensão e no escore na nomeação oral, compreensão de palavras orais e manipulação de objetos, para palavras treinadas e não treinadas. Conclusão: O treino de nomeação, exclusivo ou associado ao de compreensão oral, por meio da técnica de recuperação, beneficia o desempenho de linguagem de idosos neurotípicos e com demência e proporciona melhoras inclusive para estímulos não treinados.

Evaluating a Maintenance-Based Treatment Approach to Preventing Lexical Dropout in Progressive Anomia.

Purpose Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and the amnestic variant of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are neurodegenerative conditions characterized by a profound loss of functional communication abilities. Communicative impairment in AD and PPA is especially apparent in the domain of naming common objects and familiar faces. We evaluated the effectiveness of a language intervention targeting maintenance of an individualized core vocabulary in a longitudinal cohort of older adults experiencing either PPA or AD. Method PPA (n = 9) and AD (n = 1) patients were administered a semantically based language treatment for up to 2 years. Patients repeatedly named and generated semantic features for a personalized lexicon consisting of 100 words. We evaluated naming accuracy and off-line neuropsychological measures at four successive timepoints. Naming accuracy was assessed in patients (n = 7) who completed at least three recurrent evaluations. Off-line neuropsychological performance was assessed across timepoints in all patients. Results Patients demonstrated relative preservation of naming trained words relative to a steep decline for untrained (control) words. The greatest decrements were observed for naming people relative to objects. Conclusion These results suggest that consistent training of a finite set of words can protect a core lexicon composed of crucial target concepts (e.g., a spouse's name). We discuss potential benefits and clinical implications of maintenance-based approaches to promoting language functioning in the context of neurodegeneration.

How Much Time Do People With Aphasia Need to Respond During Picture Naming? Estimating Optimal Response Time Cutoffs Using a Multinomial Ex-Gaussian Approach.

Purpose Aphasia is a language disorder caused by acquired brain injury, which generally involves difficulty naming objects. Naming ability is assessed by measuring picture naming, and models of naming performance have mostly focused on accuracy and excluded valuable response time (RT) information. Previous approaches have therefore ignored the issue of processing efficiency, defined here in terms of optimal RT cutoff, that is, the shortest deadline at which individual people with aphasia produce their best possible naming accuracy performance. The goals of this study were therefore to (a) develop a novel model of aphasia picture naming that could accurately account for RT distributions across response types; (b) use this model to estimate the optimal RT cutoff for individual people with aphasia; and (c) explore the relationships between optimal RT cutoff, accuracy, naming ability, and aphasia severity. Method A total of 4,021 naming trials across 10 people with aphasia were scored for accuracy and RT onset. Data were fit using a novel ex-Gaussian multinomial RT model, which was then used to characterize individual optimal RT cutoffs. Results Overall, the model fitted the empirical data well and provided reliable individual estimates of optimal RT cutoff in picture naming. Optimal cutoffs ranged between approximately 5 and 10 s, which has important implications for assessment and treatment. There was no direct relationship between aphasia severity, naming RT, and optimal RT cutoff. Conclusion The multinomial ex-Gaussian modeling approach appears to be a promising and straightforward way to estimate optimal RT cutoffs in picture naming in aphasia. Limitations and future directions are discussed.

Empirical Evaluation of Computer-Adaptive Alternate Short Forms for the Assessment of Anomia Severity.

Purpose The purpose of this study was to verify the equivalence of 2 alternate test forms with nonoverlapping content generated by an item response theory (IRT)-based computer-adaptive test (CAT). The Philadelphia Naming Test (PNT; Roach, Schwartz, Martin, Grewal, & Brecher, 1996)was utilized as an item bank in a prospective, independent sample of persons with aphasia. Method Two alternate CAT short forms of the PNT were administered to a sample of 25 persons with aphasia who were at least 6 months postonset and received no treatment for 2 weeks before or during the study. The 1st session included administration of a 30-item PNT-CAT, and the 2nd session, conducted approximately 2 weeks later, included a variable-length PNT-CAT that excluded items administered in the 1st session and terminated when the modeled precision of the ability estimate was equal to or greater than the value obtained in the 1st session. The ability estimates were analyzed in a Bayesian framework. Results The 2 test versions correlated highly (r = .89) and obtained means and standard deviations that were not credibly different from one another. The correlation and error variance between the 2 test versions were well predicted by the IRT measurement model. Discussion The results suggest that IRT-based CAT alternate forms may be productively used in the assessment of anomia. IRT methods offer advantages for the efficient and sensitive measurement of change over time. Future work should consider the potential impact of differential item functioning due to person factors and intervention-specific effects, as well as expanding the item bank to maximize the clinical utility of the test. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.11368040.

Temporal and Episodic Analyses of the Story of Cinderella in Latent Aphasia.

Purpose The purpose of this study was to improve our understanding of the language characteristics of people with latent aphasia using measures that examined temporal (i.e., real-time) and episodic organization of discourse production. Method Thirty AphasiaBank participants were included (10 people with latent aphasia, 10 people with anomic aphasia, and 10 neurotypical control participants). Speech material of Cinderella narratives was analyzed with Praat software. We devised a protocol that coded the presence and duration of all speech segments, dysfluencies such as silent and filled pauses, and other speech behaviors. Using these durations, we generated a range of temporal measures such as speech, articulation, and pure word rates. Narratives were also coded into episodes, which provided information about the discourse macrostructure abilities of the participants. Results The latent aphasia group differed from controls in number of words produced, silent pause duration, and speech rate, but not articulation rate or pure word rate. Episodic organization of the narratives was similar in these 2 groups. The latent and anomic aphasia groups were similar in most measures, apart from articulation rate, which was lower in the anomic group. The anomic aphasia group also omitted more episodes than the latent aphasia group. Conclusions The differences between latent aphasia and neurotypical controls can be attributed to a processing speed deficit. We propose that this deficit results in an impaired ability to process information from multiple cognitive domains simultaneously.

Remembering a name: Neuropsychological validity studies and a computer proposal for detection of anomia / Lembrando um nome: estudos de validade neuropsicológica e uma proposta computadorizada para detecção de anomia

ABSTRACT There are contradictory results or lack of validity studies concerning the naming function and brain laterality. Although anomia is a frequent symptom of memory impairment, and the most relevant symptom of aphasia, few studies have been conducted to evaluate its validity for detecting patients with left-hemisphere damage (LD), as per the MeSH definition. Objective: To validate a paper-and-pencil confrontation naming test (CNT) according to side of brain injury; to select a valid and reliable abbreviated CNT wherein the effect of demographic variables is minimized; and to use the selected CNT to develop a computer-aided confrontation-naming evaluation (CACNE). Methods: Control data were obtained from 213 healthy participants (HP) aged 15 to 89 years. A subsample of 106 HP was demographically matched to 39 patients with LD and 40 patients with right-hemisphere damage (RD). Anomia definition and CNT cues were considered for the CACNE. Results: Test-retest and inter-rater reliability, internal consistency, and validity for detecting LD were demonstrated. A significant age effect was observed in HP. The CACNE was developed to detect anomia in interaction with environmental interventions. Conclusion: The inconsistencies observed in the CNT studies were probably due to the presence of anomia in almost 50% of the RD patients.

RESUMO Existem resultados contraditórios ou falta de estudos de validade relativos à função de nomeação e lateralidade cerebral. Embora a anomia seja um sintoma frequente de comprometimento da memória e o sintoma mais relevante da afasia, poucos estudos foram realizados para avaliar sua validade na detecção de pacientes com lesão no hemisfério esquerdo (LHE) conforme definição do MeSH. Objetivo: Validar um teste de nomeação por confrontação (TNC) do tipo papel-e-lápis de acordo com o lado da lesão cerebral. Selecionar um TNC abreviada válida e confiável, na qual o efeito de variáveis ​​demográficas seja minimizado. Usar o TNC selecionado para desenvolver uma avaliação de nomeação por confrontação auxiliada por computador (CACNE). Métodos: Os dados de controle foram obtidos de 213 participantes saudáveis ​​(PS) com idades entre 15 e 89 anos. Uma subamostra de 106 PS foi demograficamente pareada com 39 LHE e 40 pacientes com lesão no hemisfério direito (LHD). A definição de anomia e as pistas do TNC foram consideradas para a CACNE. Resultados: A confiabilidade teste-reteste e interexaminador, consistência interna e validade para a detecção de LHE foram demonstradas. Um efeito significativo da idade foi observado na PS. CACNE foi desenvolvida para detectar anomia em interação com intervenções ambientais. Conclusão: As inconsistências observadas nos estudos do TNC devem-se provavelmente à presença de anomia em quase 50% dos pacientes com LHD.

The Influence of Phonomotor Treatment on Word Retrieval: Insights From Naming Errors.

Purpose An increasing number of anomia treatment studies have coupled traditional word retrieval accuracy outcome measures with more fine-grained analysis of word retrieval errors to allow for more comprehensive measurement of treatment-induced changes in word retrieval. The aim of this study was to examine changes in picture naming errors after phonomotor treatment. Method Twenty-eight individuals with aphasia received 60 hr of phonomotor treatment, an intensive, phoneme-based therapy for anomia. Confrontation naming was assessed pretreatment, immediately posttreatment, and 3 months posttreatment for trained and untrained nouns. Responses were scored for accuracy and coded for error type, and error proportions of each error type (e.g., semantic, phonological, omission) were compared: pre- versus posttreatment and pretreatment versus 3 months posttreatment. Results The group of treatment participants improved in whole-word naming accuracy on trained items and maintained their improvement. Treatment effects also generalized to untrained nouns at the maintenance testing phase. Additionally, participants demonstrated a decrease in proportions of omission and description errors on trained items immediately posttreatment. Conclusions Along with generalized improved whole-word naming accuracy, results of the error analysis suggest that a global (i.e., both lexical-semantic and phonological) change in lexical knowledge underlies the observed changes in confrontation naming accuracy following phonomotor treatment.

Trastorno Cognitivo Comunicativo / Cognitive Communicative Disorder

En la actualidad el trastorno cognitivo comunicativo es una etiqueta diagnóstica muy recurrente en el quehacer fonoaudiológico. Sin embargo, en el contexto clínico y académico que contempla tanto a estudiantes como a profesionales, las características clínicas, etiológicas y afecciones concomitantes no están claras ni generalizadas a todo el gremio. Históricamente las alteraciones cognitivo comunicativas se han descrito como aquellas dificultades de la comunicación relacionadas con déficits lingüísticos, sobre todo en sintaxis, semántica y/o habilidades metalingüísticas, así como funciones cognitivas no lingüísticas, principalmente atención, memoria y funciones ejecutivas. Las causas más comunes del trastorno cognitivo comunicativo son Enfermedad de Alzheimer, ataques cerebrovasculares, tumores cerebrales y traumatismos craneoencefálicos. Por la confusión que se presenta en muchos casos, la primera distinción que se debe realizar es entre cuadros afásicos y trastornos cognitivos comunicativos, distinción que presenta como principal indicador la presencia de anomia, síntoma nuclear de los cuadros afásicos. Actualmente existe un creciente interés empírico y clínico en integrar los dominios cognitivos de atención, memoria y funciones ejecutivas en individuos con afasia. Lo que deriva en un reconocimiento de la concomitancia que puede existir entre afasia y trastorno cognitivo comunicativo

Currently, cognitive communicative disorder is a very recurrent diagnostic label in the task of speech therapist. However, in the clinical and academic context that includes both students and professionals, the clinical, etiological and concomitant conditions are not clear or widespread throughout the guild. Historically, cognitive communicative alterations have been described as those communication difficulties related to linguistic deficits, especially in syntax, semantics and/or metalinguistic abilities, as well as non-linguistic cognitive functions, mainly attention, memory and executive functions. The most common causes of cognitive communicative disorder are Alzheimer's disease, strokes, brain tumors and head injuries. Due to the confusion that occurs in many cases, the first distinction that must be made is between aphasia and cognitive communicative disorders, a distinction that presents as the main indicator the presence of anomia, nuclear aphasia symptom. There is currently a growing empirical and clinical interest in integrating cognitive domains of attention, memory and executive functions in individuals with aphasia. What results in a recognition of the concomitance that may exist between aphasia and cognitive communicative disorder

Rehabilitación neuropsicológica de un caso con sintomatología de afasia de conducción y anómica por evento isquémico / Neuropsychological rehabilitation in a case of conduction and anomic aphasia symptomatology by ischemic event

El tema de la rehabilitación de las afasias es explorado con frecuencia en la literatura de las últimas décadas, debido a que es una de las secuelas más comunes del daño cerebral y de las que más presenta variaciones dependiendo del caso, por lo cual los profesionales a cargo de los pacientes que sufren de esta condición se ven en la necesidad de buscar métodos eficaces para tratarlos. El objetivo de esta investigación es mostrar el diseño de un único caso con sintomatología de afasia de conducción y anomia pura. Se trata de un paciente masculino de 62 años de edad, con nivel académico de doctorado, diagnóstico de afasia de conducción y anomia a causa de un evento isquémico con 18 meses de evolución. Recibió tratamiento neuropsicológico en base a modelos histórico-culturales y neurocognitivos en dos periodos diferentes, una hora por semana. Se llevó a cabo una evaluación neuropsicológica antes y después del programa de rehabilitación, además se hizo uso de líneas bases en ambos periodos y se tomó en cuenta la perspectiva del paciente y su esposa. El rendimiento en la primera y segunda evaluación muestra un mejor desempeño en algunas áreas del lenguaje, mientras que en las líneas bases y en la apreciación del paciente y su esposa se observaron cambios importantes, concluyendo que el programa tuvo efectos favorables en la comunicación del paciente en el hogar.

The subject of aphasia rehabilitation is frequently explored in recent literature since it is one of the most common forms of brain damage and presents an assortment of variations depending on the specific case, making it so that professionals who are in charge of patients with this condition find themselves in need of effective treatment methods. This article aims to present the design for the single case study rehabilitation of a patient with conduction aphasia and pure anomia. The patient in question is a 62-year-old male with a P.h.D. level education, diagnosed with conduction aphasia and anomia caused by an ischemic event with an 18-month evolution, he received neuropsychological treatment following the historic-cultural and neurocognitive models, spanning two different treatment periods, one hour a week. A neuropsychological evaluation was made before and after the rehabilitation program, as well as using a baseline for both periods and taking into account the perspective of both the patient and his wife. Patient performance in the first and second evaluations shows improvement in some language areas, while the baselines, as well as the patient and his wife's assessment speak of important changes, concluding that the program had favorable effects on the patient's communication at home

The Roles of Retrieval Practice Versus Errorless Learning in Strengthening Lexical Access in Aphasia.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine how 2 methods known to improve naming impairment in aphasia (i.e., retrieval practice and errorless learning) affect lexical access. We hypothesized that instances of naming during retrieval practice use and strengthen item-specific connections in each of 2 stages of lexical access: Stage 1, meaning-to-word connections, and Stage 2, word-to-phonology connections. In contrast, errorless learning prioritizes opportunities for repeating words, which we expect to primarily strengthen item-specific connections in Stage 2 because repetition circumvents the need for semantically driven word retrieval. Method: We tested the outcomes of retrieval practice versus errorless learning training for items that were selected because the naming errors they elicited suggested weakened connections at Stage 1 or at Stage 2 of lexical access for each of 10 individuals with chronic aphasia. Each participant's Stage 1 items and Stage 2 items were divided evenly between the 2 training conditions. Naming tests were administered 1 day and 1 week after training to assess retention of training gains. We also examined whether the participants' pretraining naming error profiles were associated with the relative efficacy of retrieval practice versus errorless learning. Results: The posttraining naming tests showed an advantage of retrieval practice over errorless learning for Stage 1 items and an advantage of errorless learning over retrieval practice for Stage 2 items. In addition, greater percentages of phonological error naming responses prior to training were associated with greater posttraining accuracy in the errorless learning condition relative to the retrieval practice condition. Conclusions: The findings suggest that the advantage of retrieval practice for naming impairment in aphasia largely results from greater strengthening of practiced semantic-lexical connections compared with errorless learning, which prioritizes repetition and, therefore, mainly confers strengthening of practiced lexical-phonological connections. Understanding how specific training conditions improve naming can help predict the relative efficacy of each method for individuals with aphasia.

Links Between Short-Term Memory and Word Retrieval in Aphasia.

Purpose: This study explored the relationship between anomia and verbal short-term memory (STM) in the context of an interactive activation language processing model. Method: Twenty-four individuals with aphasia and reduced STM spans (i.e., impaired immediate serial recall of words) completed a picture-naming task and a word pair repetition task (a measure of verbal STM). Correlations between verbal STM and word retrieval errors made on the picture-naming task were examined. Results: A significant positive correlation between naming accuracy and verbal span length was found. More intricate verbal STM analyses examined the relationship between picture-naming error types (i.e., semantic vs. phonological) and 2 measures of verbal STM: (a) location of errors on the word pair repetition task and (b) imageability and frequency effects on the word pair repetition task. Results indicated that, as phonological word retrieval errors (relative to semantic) increase, bias toward correct repetition of high-imageability words increases. Conclusions: Results suggest that word retrieval and verbal STM tasks likely rely on a partially shared temporary linguistic activation process.

A desnecessidade da cirurgia de transgenitalização para o reconhecimento da alteração do nome e do sexo jurídico fundado na universalidade dos direitos humanos e tratamento institucional dado ao tema pelos poderes instituídos / The needlessness of transgenitalization surgery for the recognition of the change of name and legal sex based on the universality of human rights and institutional treatment given to the theme by the instituted powers

O artigo aborda um dos temas mais atuais e inquietantes para a comunidade cientifica. O debate perpassa pela interdisciplinaridade para que se possa compreender o fenômeno. Há muito têm-se discutido os direitos da população trans no Brasil, todavia, percebe-se uma flagrante anomia do Poder Legislativo, uma atuação acanhada do Poder Executivo, e um Poder judiciário atrelado a soluções fundamentadas na biomedicina, porém bastante suscetível aos posicionamentos subjetivos de seus atores. O texto traça um panorama jurídico atual, trata da evolução jurisprudencial, alem de refletir sobre as politicas publicas de acesso ao Sistema Único de Saúde e da (in)aplicabilidade do catalogo dos Direitos Humanos.

Discourse Characteristics in Aphasia Beyond the Western Aphasia Battery Cutoff.

PURPOSE: This study examined discourse characteristics of individuals with aphasia who scored at or above the 93.8 cutoff on the Aphasia Quotient subtests of the Western Aphasia Battery-Revised (WAB-R; Kertesz, 2007). They were compared with participants without aphasia and those with anomic aphasia. METHOD: Participants were from the AphasiaBank database and included 28 participants who were not aphasic by WAB-R score (NABW), 92 participants with anomic aphasia, and 177 controls. Cinderella narratives were analyzed using the Computerized Language Analysis programs (MacWhinney, 2000). Outcome measures were words per minute, percent word errors, lexical diversity using the moving average type-token ratio (Covington, 2007b), main concept production, number of utterances, mean length of utterance, and proposition density. RESULTS: Results showed that the NABW group was significantly different from the controls on all measures except MLU and proposition density. These individuals were compared to participants without aphasia and those with anomic aphasia. CONCLUSION: Individuals with aphasia who score above the WAB-R Aphasia Quotient cutoff demonstrate discourse impairments that warrant both treatment and special attention in the research literature.

Validación de la PAPDI a color en pacientes con anomia / Validation of the color PAPDI in patients with anomie

INTRODUCCIÓN La presente investigación se propuso estudiar las propiedades psicométricas de la versión a color de una prueba de denominación recientemente desarrollada a nivel local, la PAPDI, en una muestra de pacientes con anomia. OBJETIVOS Analizar las propiedades psicométricas de la versión a color de la PAPDI, en población con anomia. MÉTODOS El grupo clínico estuvo conformado por 43 pacientes, 17 con enfermedad neurodegenerativa y 26 con lesión neurológica focal, mientras que el normativo estuvo formado por 34 participantes sin patología neurológica. Se administró una batería neuropsicológica incluyendo pruebas de evaluación de lenguaje y memoria semántica. RESULTADOS Se obtuvo evidencia de validez externa de la prueba a partir de la correlación con la versión abreviada del TDB, (coeficiente rho de Spearman = .813; p < .001). ). El análisis de confiabilidad se evaluó mediante análisis de consistencia interna de los ítems (método Kuder-Richardson = 0,924). Se generó un análisis de regresión, estudiando la influencia de variables demográficas, sin observarse efecto significativo de ninguna de ellas (sexo, edad, educación). Se hizo un análisis de curvas ROC para determinar su capacidad de discriminación y se obtuvo un área bajo la curva de 0,976 (IC 95% 0,944-1). El punto de corte sugerido es de 26, con una Sensibilidad de 0,84 y una Especificidad de 1. DISCUSIÓN La versión a color de la PAPDI mostró mejores propiedades psicométricas que la versión en blanco y negro, siendo útil para evaluar pacientes con fallas en la denominación

Influence of Cognitive Ability on Therapy Outcomes for Anomia in Adults With Chronic Poststroke Aphasia.

Purpose: The relationship between cognitive abilities and aphasia rehabilitation outcomes is complex and remains poorly understood. This study investigated the influence of language and cognitive abilities on anomia therapy outcomes in adults with aphasia. Method: Thirty-four adults with chronic aphasia participated in Aphasia Language Impairment and Functioning Therapy. A language and cognitive assessment battery, including 3 baseline naming probes, was administered prior to therapy. Naming accuracy for 30 treated and 30 untreated items was collected at posttherapy and 1-month follow-up. Multiple regression models were computed to evaluate the relationship between language and cognitive abilities at baseline and anomia therapy outcomes. Results: Both language and cognitive variables significantly influenced anomia therapy gains. Verbal short-term memory ability significantly predicted naming gains for treated items at posttherapy (ß = -.551, p = .002) and for untreated items at posttherapy (ß = .456, p = .014) and 1-month follow-up (ß = .455, p = .021). Furthermore, lexical-semantic processing significantly predicted naming gains for treated items at posttherapy (ß = -.496, p = .004) and 1-month follow-up (ß = .545, p = .012). Conclusions: Our findings suggest that individuals' cognitive ability, specifically verbal short-term memory, affects anomia treatment success. Further research into the relationship between cognitive ability and anomia therapy outcomes may help to optimize treatment techniques.

O desespero humano em Kierkegaard: contribuição para a Psicologia / Human despair in Kiekergaard and contributions to Psychology

O artigo apresenta uma das obras do filósofo Sõren Kierkegaard assinada pelo personagem Anti-Climacus. Inicia com uma crítica à especulação dos saberes afastados da realidade concreta e semimplicação com a vida. Descreve, em seguida, a doença que dá título à obra e suas personificações. Aopsicólogo, segundo Anti-Climacus, caberia detectar o desespero, assim como o médico detecta a presençada doença orgânica no paciente que afirma estar bem. Encontram-se descritos na obra 'modos desubjetivação', seja na consciência ou inconsciência de se ter um eu, no aprisionamento ao temporal emdetrimento do eterno, no esquecimento dos necessários em favor dos possíveis ou vice-versa. Pretende-semostrar a atualidade do estudo da obra para o psicólogo