Verbal fluency discrepancies as a marker of the prehippocampal stages of Alzheimer's disease.

Semantic memory appears a useful indicator of even the earliest stages of medial temporal damage in AD. With advancing disease severity, the discrepancy index loses its focal anatomical association, reinforcing its value as an early marker of incipient decline. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).