Loss of word-meaning with spared object semantics in a case of mixed primary progressive aphasia

Brain and Language

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 96-100

  Knels, Christina ^a   Danek, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mixed progressive aphasia; Primary progressive aphasia; Semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION SKILL; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PERISYLVIAN REGION; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 77951634699     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2009.09.007     Document Type: Article

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