The patient with word-finding difficulty presents a common and challenging clinical problem.
The complaint of 'word-finding difficulty'covers a wide range of clinical phenomena and may …

Selective disorders in recognition of familiar people have been described in patients with
right and left anterior temporal lesions, but the exact nature of these cognitive impairments …

Considerable controversy exists regarding the relationship between semantic dementia
(SD) and progressive aphasia. SD patients present with anomia and impaired word …

Studies of semantic impairment arising from brain disease suggest that the anterior temporal
lobes are critical for semantic abilities in humans; yet activation of these regions is rarely …

We describe how a neuropsychological evaluation in patients with brain tumors should be
performed, specifically in the case of low-grade gliomas. Neuropsychological examination is …

Sound understanding of the dementia syndrome requires adequate acquaintance with its
entire spectrum, from the lightest to the most advanced stages. Most studies of dementia …

A comprehensive review was made of the relationships between right hemisphere and face
familiarity feelings, taking separately into account:(a) studies of patients with unilateral …

In this paper, an overview of the studies relating naming to the uncinate fasciculus is
reported. With the introduction of contemporary neuroimaging techniques, namely of …

What is the underlying representation of lexical knowledge? How do we know whether a
given string of letters is a word, whereas another string of letters is not? There are two …

Background: Few studies have addressed rehabilitation in semantic dementia. A potentially
promising method is formal‐semantic therapy, which consists of tasks in which the names of …