Semantic dementia: Brazilian study of nineteen cases
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Semantic dementia Brazilian study of nineteen cases
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 memory impairment. Objectives The aim of this study was to describe a Brazilian sample of 19 semantic dement...
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عنوان ژورنال: Dementia & Neuropsychologia
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1980-5764
DOI: 10.1590/s1980-57642008dn10400007