Differential impairment of person-specific knowledge in a patient with semantic dementia

Neurocase

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-26

  Giovanello, Kelly Sullivan ^a   Alexander, Michael ^a,b   Verfaellie, Mieke ^a,c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ATTENTION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VERBAL LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0038481189     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/neur.9.1.15.14369     Document Type: Article

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