Theory of mind impairments in patients with semantic dementia

Brain

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 228-241

  Duval, Céline ^a   Bejanin, Alexandre ^a   Piolino, Pascale ^a,b,c   Laisney, Mickael ^a   De La Sayette, Vincent ^a   Belliard, Serge ^a,d   Eustache, Francis ^a   Desgranges, Béatrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d PONTCHAILLOU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

cognitive affective theory of mind; imaging; objective subjective assessment; semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 84856708522     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awr309     Document Type: Article

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