This important book provides a broad, integrated overview of current research on word-
finding deficit, anomia, the most common symptom of language dysfunction occurring after …

There are many distinct forms of dementia whose pharmacological and behavioral
management differ. Differential diagnosis among the dementia variants currently relies upon …

Background: Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) with its three variants is a progressive
neurodegenerative dementia in which language impairment is the first and most dominant …

Words associated with perceptually salient, highly imageable concepts are learned earlier in
life, more accurately recalled, and more rapidly named than abstract words (RW Brown …

Rehabilitation provides a core concept around which to organise support, intervention and
care for people with impairments in memory and other cognitive functions. This book …

To investigate the basis for impaired sentence comprehension in patients with
frontotemporal dementia (FTD) we assessed grammatical comprehension and verbal …

We examined the effectiveness of a 2-week regimen of a semantic feature training in
combination with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for progressive naming …

Background: Studies on anomia treatment in semantic dementia demonstrate that re-
learning is possible, but maintenance and generalisation of improvements are limited …

The logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia (lvPPA) is characterized mainly by
anomia, production of phonological errors, and impairment in repetition of sentences. The …

This study presents the first direct comparison of immediate serial recall in semantic
dementia (SD) and transcortical sensory aphasia (TSA). Previous studies of the effect of …