Emotional Comparison Between Semantic Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Background: Previous studies have suggested that Alzheimer's disease (AD) and semantic dementia (SD) are both associated with emotional processing impairment.
Ping Wang +5 more
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Characterizing Differences in Functional Connectivity Between Posterior Cortical Atrophy and Semantic Dementia by Seed-Based Approach [PDF]
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2022 BackgroundPosterior cortical atrophy (PCA) and semantic dementia (SD) are focal syndromes involving different cerebral regions. This study aimed to demonstrate the existence of abnormal functional connectivity (FC) with an affected network in PCA and SD ...
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The Free Association Task: Proposal of a Clinical Tool for Detecting Differential Profiles of Semantic Impairment in Semantic Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease [PDF]
Medicina, 2021 Backround and Objectives: It is widely agreed that patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and patients suffering from semantic dementia (SD) might fail clinically administered semantic tasks due to a different combination of underlying ...
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Defective Awareness of Person-Recognition Disorders Through Face, Voice and Name in Right and Left Variants of Semantic Dementia: A Pilot Study [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground/Objectives: The aim of this investigation consisted of evaluating if the prevalence of anosognosia in right-brain-damaged patients is greater for tasks in which the right hemisphere plays a dominant role and if this prevalence is at least in ...
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On-Reading (Chinese-Style Pronunciation) Predominance Over Kun-Reading (Native Japanese Pronunciation) in Japanese Semantic Dementia [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 Japanese kanji (morphograms) have two ways of reading: on-reading (Chinese-style pronunciation) and kun-reading (native Japanese pronunciation). It is known that some Japanese patients with semantic dementia read kanji with on-reading but not with kun ...
Yasuhisa Sakurai +4 more
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Clinical features of behavioral symptoms in patients with semantic dementia: Does semantic dementia cause autistic traits? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 ObjectiveTo investigate the behavioral characteristics of semantic dementia (SD) using an instrument originally developed for patients with autism spectrum disorder.MethodsThe behavioral symptoms of 20 patients with SD and 20 patients with Alzheimer's ...
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Semantic dementia: a complex and culturally influenced presentation [PDF]
BJPsych BulletinSummary The variants of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) require careful differentiation from primary psychiatric disorders as the neuropsychiatric manifestations can overshadow the unique cognitive deficits.
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The neuropsychological profiles and semantic-critical regions of right semantic dementia [PDF]
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2018 Introduction: Previous literature has revealed that the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) is the semantic hub of left-sided or mixed semantic dementia (SD), whilst the semantic hub of right-sided SD has not been examined.
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Clinical Manifestations and Neural Basis of Semantic Dementia: Converging Evidences From Brain Imaging Studies [PDF]
Clinical Interventions in AgingXuanyu Chen, Yi Chen, Guoping Peng, Xiaoyan Liu Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Guoping Peng, Email guopingpeng@zju.edu.cn Xiaoyan Liu ...
Chen X, Chen Y, Peng G, Liu X
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A unified neurocognitive model of semantics language social behaviour and face recognition in semantic dementia [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2020 Semantic dementia patients present with a core semantic impairment and variations of language, behavioural and face recognition abilities. Here, the authors build a unified multidimensional model to capture all these graded symptoms and map them to the ...
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