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Kristina Thurin1, Viharkumar Patel1, David L Perez1

  • 1Department of Psychiatry and Department of Neurology, Center for Cognitive and Memory Disorders, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio (Thurin); Departments of Psychiatry (Thurin, Silbersweig) and Neurology (Thurin, McGinnis, Daffner, Gale), Center for Brain/Mind Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School (Patel, Miller, Feany); Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, Divisions of Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (Perez); Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, Frontotemporal Disorders Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (Dickerson, Hochberg, Quimby).

The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
|August 3, 2022
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Aphasias and Related DisordersClinicopathologic CorrelationDynamic AphasiaFTLD-tauFrontotemporal Lobar DegenerationNeuropathologyPick’s DiseasePrimary Progressive Aphasia

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