This study compared a semantic and a phonological/orthographic approach to the treatment of word-finding difficulties in a caseseries of ten individuals with aphasia, using a cross-over design. The study aims to investigate whether one approach is generally more effective than the other or whether the effectiveness of the two treatments relates systematically to the nature of the underlying fun...

In a patient with damage to the right occipital lobe and to the splenium of the corpus callosum, an incomplete colour anopia in the left upper quadrants and a colour anomia was found for the complete left visual hemifield beyond 2 degrees eccentricity. The patient had no difficulty in recognising coloured targets when presented in the periphery of the left visual hemifield and in the foveal reg...

Patients with posterior cortical atrophy may have dorsal visual system (occipital-parietal) dysfunction (optic ataxia, visuospatial disorientation, and simultanagnosia), ventral visual system (occipital-temporal) dysfunction (pure alexia, prosopagnosia, visual anomia, and agnosia), or both. We report a professional musician with ventral system dysfunction whose first symptom was alexia for musi...

Abstract Background Prior studies of prodromal genetic frontotemporal dementia (FTD) have identified impaired executive function and social cognition in C9orf72 GRN mutation carriers but few cognitive deficits been found MAPT carriers. Method We investigated performance on the Boston Naming Test (BNT) GENetic Frontotemporal Initiative (GENFI) cohort 499 248 negative controls divided across thre...

El estudio analiza la asociación entre las conductas autodestructivas indirectas y anomia social en una muestra de 509 escolares cuarto secundaria instituciones educativas Lima. Se empleó ficha datos, escala Kelley et al. (1985) adaptada al español por Ponce (2007) Li (1999) validada Vera (2013). halló directa significativa ambas variables total (con sin violencia familiar), con tamaño del efec...