Semantic dementia: Brazilian study of nineteen cases

Abstract The term semantic dementia was devised by Snowden et al. in 1989 and nowadays, the semantic dementia syndrome is recognized as one of the clinical forms of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) and is characterized by a language semantic disturbance associated to non-verbal semantic memo...

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Main Authors: Mirna Lie Hosogi Senaha, Paulo Caramelli, Claudia Sellitto Porto, Ricardo Nitrini
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=S1980-57642007000400366&lng=en&tlng=en