Impairment of verb processing in frontal variant-frontotemporal dementia: A dysexecutive symptom

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 296-300

  Silveri, Maria Caterina ^a   Salvigni, B L ^a   Cappa, A ^a   Della Vedova, C ^a   Puopolo, M ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dysexecutive syndrome; Frontotemporal dementia; Verb processing

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DEMENTIA; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0141616524     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000072816     Document Type: Article

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