Semantic dementia and persisting Wernicke's aphasia: Linguistic and anatomical profiles

Brain and Language

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 28-33

  Ogar, J M ^a,b   Baldo, J V ^b   Wilson, S M ^a   Brambati, S M ^a   Miller, B L ^a   Dronkers, N F ^b,d   Gorno Tempini, M L ^a,c  

^a UCSF Department of Neurology   (United States)

^b VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension impairments; Primary progressive aphasia; Semantic dementia; Stroke; Voxel based morphometry; Wernicke's aphasia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; APHASIA, WERNICKE; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; BRAIN; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79953731938     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.11.004     Document Type: Article

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