OBJECTIVES Naming deficit is a linguistic symptom that appears in the initial phase of Alzheimer's disease, but the types of naming errors and the ways in which this deficit changes over the course of the disease are unclear. We analyzed the performance of patients with Alzheimer's disease on naming tasks during the mild and moderate phases and verified how this linguistic skill deteriorates ov...

After a head injury, a 58-year-old patient presented a severe deficit in face recognition. Bilateral temporo-occipital hematomas were drained. Associated with this deficit in face recognition, the patient presented visual hypoemotionality (hyporeactivity to visual stimuli) and transient gustatory amnesia. Some topographic amnesia and mild anomia were also present. Five years later, difficulties...

O objetivo do trabalho foi compreender o fenômeno da gastro-anomia, como isso se aplica na alimentação contemporânea, e avaliar os impactos deste identidade, geração manutenção de laços sociais uma população. Trata-se pesquisa abordagem qualitativa caráter exploratório através revisão bibliográfica. Foram selecionadas publicações em bases dados scielo google acadêmico entre anos 2007 2016, util...

A case of a 50-year-old, right-handed female, mono-lingual native Spanish-speaker with a university-level education and cognitive changes is reported. Over approximately 2 years, she presented with a progressive deterioration of writing abilities associated with acalculia and anomia. An MRI disclosed a left parietal temporal atrophy. Two years later, further significant cognitive decline consis...

We report here a patient with proper name anomia following subcortical hemorrhage in the left superior temporal gyrus. Despite the preserved ability to retrieve common names, the patient could not retrieve the names of people, countries, or racehorses, which he could recognize quite well. Semantic knowledge regarding people, countries, and racehorses was also preserved. In addition. the finding...