Selective sparing of verb naming in a case of severe Alzheimer's disease

A patient with severe Alzheimer's disease (AD) presented with a severe impa irment in naming nouns but selective sparing of the naming of verbs. Her im pairment in naming nouns was presented across a wide range of categories in vestigated. To our knowledge, this is the first case documenting the select ive preservation of verb naming in a patient with AD. The implications for the notion of an intrinsic vulnerability of verb naming in AD and for the c urrent knowledge of anatomical correlates of noun/verb processing are discu ssed.