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S Belliard1, C Merck, P Y Jonin
1Centre mémoire de ressource et de recherche, CHU de Rennes, site Hôtel Dieu, 2, rue de l'Hôtel-Dieu, 35064 Rennes cedex, France; Inserm-EPHE, unité U1077, université de Caen/Basse Normandie, GIP Cycéron, CHU, avenue de la Côte-de-Nacre, CS 30001, 14033 Caen cedex 9, France; Service de neurologie, CHU Pontchaillou, rue Henri-Le-Guilloux, 35033 Rennes cedex, France.
Abstract:
Semantic dementia is a lobar atrophy syndrome, related to a degeneration of anterior temporal regions, and characterized by a very predominant impairment of semantic memory. Whereas the diagnosis is relatively easy to establish in the typical form and if the patient is seen early, the emergence of possible additional cognitive or psycho-behavioural disorders can lead to a misdiagnosis in favour of a frontotemporal dementia syndrome or even probable Alzheimer's disease.
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