The natural history of late-stage "pure" semantic dementia

Neurocase

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-14

  Jefferies, Elizabeth ^a   Patterson, Karalyn ^b   Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; COOPERATION; DEMENTIA; DETERIORATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONEME; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH DISORDER; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGED; ARTICULATION DISORDERS; ATROPHY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 33644831085     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790500428445     Document Type: Article

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