“…While investigating the relationship between the CERAD language tests and FDG-PET metabolism in AD Teipel et al found the animal fluency test to be associated with left temporo-parietal and left prefrontal metabolism, while the abbreviated 15-item Boston Naming Test (BNT) version linked to left middle temporal, left superior parietal and fusiform metabolism. (Teipel, Willoch, Ishii, Burger, Drzezga, Engel, Bartenstein, Moller, Schwaiger, & Hampel, 2006) Impaired verbal and nonverbal semantic performance correlated with hypometabolism in the left anterior temporal (Brodmann areas, BA 21 and 38), posterior inferior temporal (BA 37), inferior parietal (supramarginal gyrus, BA 40) and medial occipital cortex (Zahn, Juengling, Bubrowski, Jost, Dykierek, Talazko, & Huell, 2004). Another FDG-PET study by Hirono et al described correlations between animal fluency and the left superior and inferior frontal, bilateral anterior cingulate and left inferior temporal metabolism, and naming performance was found to correlate with left middle and inferior temporal metabolism (Hirono, Mori, Ishii, Imamura, Tanimukai, Kazui, Hashimoto, Takatsuki, Kitagaki, & Sasaki, 2001).…”