Progressive prosopagnosia at a very early stage of frontotemporal lobar degeneration

Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 155-162

  Nakachi, Ryoko ^a   Muramatsu, Taro ^b   Kato, Motoichiro ^b   Akiyama, Tomoko ^a   Saito, Fumie ^b   Yoshino, Fumihiro ^c   Mimura, Masaru ^d   Kashima, Haruo ^b  

^a Komagino Hospital   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^d SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Facial recognition; Frontotemporal lobar degeneration; Prosopagnosia; Temporallobe; Within category learning deficit

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBE DEGENERATION; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; STAGING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 36048940012     PISSN: 13463500     EISSN: 14798301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8301.2007.00205.x     Document Type: Article

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