Here, we review recent progress in the diagnosis and management of primary progressive
aphasia—the language-led dementias. We pose six key unanswered questions that …

Impaired social cognition is a core deficit in frontotemporal dementia (FTD). It is most
commonly associated with the behavioural-variant of FTD, with atrophy of the orbitofrontal …

Advanced methods of imaging and mapping the healthy and lesioned brain have allowed
for the identification of the cortical nodes and white matter tracts supporting the dual …

Recent work has focussed on how patterns of functional change within the temporal lobe
relate to whole-brain dimensions of intrinsic connectivity variation (Margulies et al., 2016) …

The left and right anterior temporal lobes (ATLs) encode semantic representations. They
show graded hemispheric specialization in function, with the left ATL contributing …

Semantic dementia is a kind of neurodegenerative disorder, characterized by prominent
semantic impairments and anterior temporal lobe atrophy. Since 2010, more studies have …

As science and technology rapidly progress, it becomes increasingly important to
understand how individuals comprehend expository technical texts that explain these …

Background An individual's diagnostic subtype may fail to predict the efficacy of a given type
of treatment for anomia. Classification by conceptual-semantic impairment may be more …

We revisited the anatomo-functional characteristics of the basal temporal language area
(BTLA), first described by Lüders et al.(1986), using electrical cortical stimulation (ECS) in …

Semantic cognition refers to the storage and appropriate use of knowledge acquired over
the lifespan and underpins our everyday verbal and non-verbal behaviours. Successful …