Semantic memory is someone’s long-term store of knowledge: It’s composed of pieces of information such as facts learned in school, what concepts mean and how they are related, or the ...

Dementia patient Marie was diagnosed with a form of the condition at the age of just 49 after she initially mistook one of ...

Semantic memory isn’t just a library of trivia: In compiling a vast range of meanings, details about the way things are, and conceptual linkages, it enables one to learn about the world and ...

Marie, a school teacher, was diagnosed with dementia four years ago after initially believing her hot flashes were a sign of ...

aPrince of Wales Medical Research Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Semantic dementia (SD), one of the main clinical variants of frontotemporal dementia, presents a unique ...

The association between amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is well recognised, with the majority of reports describing the behavioural form of FTD (bvFTD).1 Semantic ...

OBJECTIVE To test predictions that frontotemporal dementia and semantic dementia give rise to distinct patterns of behavioural change. METHODS An informant based semistructured behavioural interview, ...

Abstract: It has been claimed that semantic dementia (SD), the temporal variant of fronto-temporal dementia, is characterized by an across-the-board deficit affecting all types of conceptual knowledge ...

MIT researchers propose a new model on how brain cells, such as place and grid cells, create a memory scaffold, advancing the ...

Remembering that Paris is the capital of France is a type of memory called 'Semantic memory', memory for concepts, facts, rules, etc. Semantic memory has no sensory element to it but it will get ...

[15] Naming is typically impaired in dementia, and the types of errors can be informative. Phonemic or semantic errors can be observed and suggest nonfluent or fluent progressive aphasia ...