One Size Does Not Fit All: Face Emotion Processing Impairments in Semantic Dementia, Behavioural-Variant Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease Are Mediated by Distinct Cognitive Deficits

Patients with frontotemporal dementia (both behavioural variant [bvFTD] and semantic dementia [SD]) as well as those with Alzheimer's disease (AD) show deficits on tests of face emotion processing, yet the mechanisms underlying these deficits have rarely been explored. We compared groups of pat...

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Main Authors: Laurie A. Miller, Sharpley Hsieh, Suncica Lah, Sharon Savage, John R. Hodges, Olivier Piguet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Behavioural Neurology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-2012-0349