Hodges et al. (1992)

SEMANTIC DEMENTIA

Brain, 115(6), 1783-1806

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HODGES, J. O. H. N. R., PATTERSON, K. A. R. A. L. Y. N., OXBURY, S. U. S. A. N., & FUNNELL, E. L. A. I. N. E. (1992). SEMANTIC DEMENTIA. Brain, 115(6), 1783-1806. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/115.6.1783

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Semantic Knowledge Memory Systems

Neural substrate

In five patients with focal temporal lobe atrophy, knowledge of word meanings and of living and man-made things progressively dissolved while day-to-day episodic memory, grammar, and perceptual abilities were relatively preserved, a syndrome the authors named semantic dementia