Word-finding difficulty: A clinical analysis of the progressive aphasias

Brain

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 8-38

  Rohrer, Jonathan D ^a   Knight, William D ^a   Warren, Jane E ^b   Fox, Nick C ^a   Rossor, Martin N ^a   Warren, Jason D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anomia; Aphasia; Dementia; Progressive aphasia; Speech and language

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA ANALYSIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE COURSE; EPISODIC MEMORY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; REVIEW; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISORDER; SPELLING; SYMPTOM; TAXONOMY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WRITING;

ANOMIA; APHASIA; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 37549034709     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awm251     Document Type: Review

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