We present two patients in whom the combination of lesion site and cognitive performance
was uniquely informative about the organisation and functional anatomy of semantic …

We employed a triadic comparison task in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and
healthy controls to contrast (a) multidimensional scaling (MDS) and accuracy-based …

We addressed the question of whether Alzheimer's Disease (AD) causes a selective
impairment for knowledge of living things. Although we replicated a previous finding that AD …

Methods: We conducted secondary analyses of a randomized clinical trial of raloxifene in 42
women with late-onset mild-to-moderate Alzheimer disease. We assessed semantic memory …

Background: Semantic memory may be impaired in clinically recognized states of cognitive
impairment. We investigated the relationship between semantic memory and depressive …

Lexico-semantic difficulties are common in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The bottom-up
process theory is today well accepted: superordinate attributes tend to decline slower than …

A battery of neuropsychological tests designed to assess semantic knowledge about the
same items both within and across different modalities was administered to a group of 22 …

This study was designed to explore the nature of the anomia that is a defining feature of
semantic dementia. Using a pool of 225 sets of picture naming data from 78 patients, we …

This is the fifth symposium to appear in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological
Society (JINS). This symposium was developed in tandem with a Memory Disorders …

Structural and content-related deficits occur in connected discourse of patients with semantic
dementia (SD). We used principal components analysis (PCA) to characterise the sources of …