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Semantic dementia is a rare, distinct form of frontotemporal lobar degeneration, characterized by a deficit in semantic memory with relative preservation of attention and executive functions. We report a case...
Balint's syndrome consists of the following triad: psychic gaze paralysis or ocular apraxia, optic ataxia, simultanagnosia. We describe a patient with bilateral parieto-occipital infarctions presenting with the above triad. A...
A subgroup of patients with progressive degenerative dementia that begins with higher visual dysfunction has been referred to as posterior cortical atrophy (PCA). A 55-year-old woman presented with progressive visual...
Kwon JC, Kang SJ, Chin JH, Kang YW, Lee YM, Kim HH, Park JM, Kim SE, Na DL
KMID: 2186004
J Korean Neurol Assoc.
2001 Nov;19(6):598-607.
BACKGROUND: Semantic dementia (SD) is a temporal variant of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), which is characterized by naming difficulty, decreased comprehension of words, prosopagnosia and object visual agnosia. We report...