Language assessment has a crucial role in the clinical diagnosis of several
neurodegenerative diseases. The analysis of extended speech production is a precious …

Primary progressive aphasias (PPA) are neurodegenerative diseases clinically
characterized by an early and relatively isolated language impairment. Three main clinical …

Background/Aims: The aims of this study were to validate the newly developed version of the
Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination (ACE-III) against standardised neuropsychological …

Background/Aims: We developed and validated the Mini-Addenbrooke's Cognitive
Examination (M-ACE) in dementia patients. Comparisons were also made with the Mini …

The typical presentation of semantic dementia is associated with marked, left predominant
anterior temporal lobe atrophy and with changes in language. About 30% of individuals …

Semantic dementia is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the
amodal and profound loss of semantic knowledge attributable to the degeneration of the left …

Loss of empathy is a core presenting feature of the behavioral-variant of frontotemporal
dementia (bvFTD), resulting in socioemotional difficulties and behavioral transgressions. In …

Importance While advances have been made in characterizing theC9ORF72clinical
phenotype, the hallmark features that discriminate between carriers and noncarriers remain …

Progressive and relatively circumscribed loss of semantic knowledge, referred to as
semantic dementia (SD) which falls under the broader umbrella of frontotemporal dementia …

Patients with frontotemporal dementia have pervasive changes in emotion recognition and
social cognition, yet the neural changes underlying these emotion processing deficits …