Semantic dementia and fluent primary progressive aphasia: two sides of the same coin?

Semantic dementia and fluent primary progressive aphasia: two sides of the same coin?

Considerable controversy exists regarding the relationship between semantic dementia (SD) and progressive aphasia. SD patients present with anomia and impaired word comprehension. The widely used consensus criteria also include the need for patients to exhibit associative agnosia and/or prosopagnosia: many authors have used the label SD for patients with non-verbal, as well as verbal, semantic ...

Verbal and non-verbal semantic impairment: From fluent primary progressive aphasia to semantic dementia

Selective disturbances of semantic memory have attracted the interest of many investigators and the question of the existence of single or multiple semantic systems remains a very controversial theme in the literature. Objectives To discuss the question of multiple semantic systems based on a longitudinal study of a patient who presented semantic dementia from fluent primary progressive aphas...

Semantic dementia. Progressive fluent aphasia with temporal lobe atrophy.

We report five patients with a stereotyped clinical syndrome characterized by fluent dysphasia with severe anomia, reduced vocabulary and prominent impairment of single-word comprehension, progressing to a stage of virtually complete dissolution of the semantic components of language. A marked reduction in the ability to generate exemplars from restricted semantic categories (e.g. animals, vehi...

Copper: two sides of the same coin.

Two sides of the same coin.

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