Interhemispheric differences in knowledge of animals among patients with semantic dementia

Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 240-246

  Mendez, Mario F ^a,b   Kremen, Sarah A ^a   Tsai, Po Heng ^a   Shapira, Jill S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

animate inanimate; prosopagnosia; Semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIES; FEMALE; FLUENCY DISORDER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NOMENCLATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGED; ANIMALS; ATROPHY; BRAIN; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 78650804718     PISSN: 15433633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNN.0b013e3181f22448     Document Type: Article

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