The Wernicke conundrum and the anatomy of language comprehension in primary progressive aphasia

Brain

Volumn 138, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2423-2437

  Mesulam, M Marsel ^a,b   Thompson, Cynthia K ^a   Weintraub, Sandra ^a,b   Rogalski, Emily J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aphasia; dementia; grammar; language; semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOSTON NAMING TEST; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPREHENSION; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROANATOMY; NORTHWESTERN ASSESSMENT OF VERBS AND SENTENCES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PEABODY PICTURE VOCABULARY TEST; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDS AND PALM TREES TEST; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; WERNICKE AREA; WESTERN APHASIA BATTERY; WHITE MATTER INJURY; APHASIA; FRONTAL LOBE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APHASIA; APHASIA, WERNICKE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84940055861     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awv154     Document Type: Article

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