Frontotemporal dementia

J Bang, S Spina, BL Miller - The Lancet, 2015‏ - thelancet.com
Frontotemporal dementia is an umbrella clinical term that encompasses a group of
neurodegenerative diseases characterised by progressive deficits in behaviour, executive …

A cortical network for semantics:(de) constructing the N400

EF Lau, C Phillips, D Poeppel - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2008‏ - nature.com
Measuring event-related potentials (ERPs) has been fundamental to our understanding of
how language is encoded in the brain. One particular ERP response, the N400 response …

Dorsal and ventral streams: a framework for understanding aspects of the functional anatomy of language

G Hickok, D Poeppel - Cognition, 2004‏ - Elsevier
Despite intensive work on language–brain relations, and a fairly impressive accumulation of
knowledge over the last several decades, there has been little progress in develo** large …

Semantic dementia: Progressive fluent aphasia with temporal lobe atrophy

JR Hodges, K Patterson, S Oxbury, E Funnell - Brain, 1992‏ - academic.oup.com
We report five patients with a stereotyped clinical syndrome characterized by fluent
dysphasia with severe anomia, reduced vocabulary and promment impairment of single …

The Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory (P-FIT) of intelligence: converging neuroimaging evidence

RE Jung, RJ Haier - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2007‏ - cambridge.org
“Is there a biology of intelligence which is characteristic of the normal human nervous
system?” Here we review 37 modern neuroimaging studies in an attempt to address this …

Episodic memory, amnesia, and the hippocampal–anterior thalamic axis

JP Aggleton, MW Brown - Behavioral and brain sciences, 1999‏ - cambridge.org
By utilizing new information from both clinical and experimental (lesion, electrophysiological,
and gene-activation) studies with animals, the anatomy underlying anterograde amnesia …

The representation of object concepts in the brain

A Martin - Annu. Rev. Psychol., 2007‏ - annualreviews.org
Evidence from functional neuroimaging of the human brain indicates that information about
salient properties of an object—such as what it looks like, how it moves, and how it is used …

Primary progressive aphasia

MM Mesulam - Annals of neurology, 2001‏ - Wiley Online Library
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a focal dementia characterized by an isolated and
gradual dissolution of language function. The disease starts with word‐finding disturbances …

Clinical, genetic and pathological heterogeneity of frontotemporal dementia: a review

H Seelaar, JD Rohrer, YAL Pijnenburg… - Journal of Neurology …, 2011‏ - jnnp.bmj.com
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the second most common young-onset dementia and is
clinically characterised by progressive behavioural change, executive dysfunction and …

Semantic memory and the brain: structure and processes

A Martin, LL Chao - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2001‏ - Elsevier
Recent functional brain imaging studies suggest that object concepts may be represented, in
part, by distributed networks of discrete cortical regions that parallel the organization of …