A very challenging problem in the domain of the cognitive neurosciences is to explain why
herpes simplex encephalitis and semantic dementia show, respectively, a category-specific …

The effect of normal aging on lexical production and semantic processing was evaluated in
72 healthy participants. Four tasks were used, picture naming (PN), picture categorization …

Data are mixed on whether patients with semantic variant primary progressive aphasia
exhibit a category-selective semantic deficit for animate objects. Moreover, there is little …

Introduction Self-awareness of cognitive, emotional, functional, and social performance is
critical for compliance with treatment. However, few studies have investigated self …

Introduction: Disequilibrium between the taxonomic and thematic semantic systems was
previously hypothesized in participants with semantic dementia (SD), without rigorously …

Semantic dementia patients seem to have better knowledge of information linked to the self.
More specifically, despite having severe semantic impairment, these patients show that they …

Dementia refers to a set of conditions affecting aspects of cognitive processing, caused by
damage to the brain's cerebrum. The cerebrum is composed of four major regions, or lobes …

After demonstrating the relative preservation of fruit and vegetable knowledge in patients
with semantic dementia (SD), we sought to identify the neural substrate of this unusual …

Background: Memory disorder is a significant symptom during early-stage Alzheimer's
disease (AD). Changes in semantic memory are frequently seen in terms of forgetting …

The patient was a 70-year-old woman who was diagnosed with svPPA following the criteria
described by Gorno-Tempini I et al i.[1] She developed perseveration and stereotypies at …