Known, lost, and recovered: Efficacy of formal-semantic therapy and spaced retrieval method in a case of semantic dementia

Aphasiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 210-235

  Bier, Nathalie ^a   Macoir, Joël ^b   Gagnon, Lise ^a   Van der Linden, Martial ^c   Louveaux, Stephanie ^d   Desrosiers, Johanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF GERIATRICS OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FORMAL SEMANTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING STYLE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPACED RETRIEVAL; SPEECH THERAPY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 60149106396     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207590801942906     Document Type: Article

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