A tale of two hemispheres: Contrasting socioemotional dysfunction in right- versus left-lateralised semantic dementia

ABSTRACT Objective: Semantic dementia, a subtype of frontotemporal lobar degeneration, is characterised by cross-modal loss of conceptual knowledge attributable to progressive degeneration of the left anterior temporal lobe. Much less is known regarding the clinical presentation of SD patients with...

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Main Authors: Muireann Irish, Fiona Kumfor, John R. Hodges, Olivier Piguet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento
Series:Dementia & Neuropsychologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-57642013000100088&lng=en&tlng=en