Slowly progressive defect in recognition of familiar people in a patient with right anterior temporal atrophy

Brain

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 792-803

  Gainotti, Guido ^a   Barbier, Annalisa ^a   Marra, Camillo ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Frontotemporal dementia; Prosopagnosia; Recognition of familiar people; Right anterior temporal atrophy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE COURSE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL MEMORY; ATROPHY; FAMILY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ATROPHY; FAMILY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROSOPAGNOSIA; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0037378816     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awg092     Document Type: Article

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