Empathy and emotion recognition in semantic dementia: A case report

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 247-252

  Calabria, Marco ^a   Cotelli, Maria ^a   Adenzato, Mauro ^b   Zanetti, Orazio ^a   Miniussi, Carlo ^a,c  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c National Institute of Neuroscience   (Italy)

Author keywords

Emotional processing; Empathy; Facial expression; Semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECOGNITION; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA;

AGED; COMPREHENSION; DEMENTIA; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 67349185863     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2009.02.009     Document Type: Article

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