Semantic amnesia without dementia: Documentation of a case

Italian Journal of Neurological Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 167-171

  Rusconi, M L ^a   Zago, S ^b   Basso, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Episodic memory; Semantic amnesia; semantic memory

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AMNESIA; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0031158237     PISSN: 03920461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02048486     Document Type: Article

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