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...
Main Authors: | Muireann Irish, Fiona Kumfor, John R. Hodges, Olivier Piguet |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Associação Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento
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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 |
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