Cortex
Volume 44, Issue 9 , Pages 1265-1270 , October 2008

Repeat and Point: Differentiating semantic dementia from progressive non-fluent aphasia

  • John R. Hodges

      Affiliations

    • Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
    • Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Barker Street, Randwick, Sydney, NSW 2031, Australia.
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  • Marina Martinos

      Affiliations

    • Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
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  • Anna M. Woollams

      Affiliations

    • Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
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  • Karalyn Patterson

      Affiliations

    • Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
    • ,
  • Anna-Lynne R. Adlam

      Affiliations

    • Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK

Received 17 January 2007 ,Revised 28 June 2007 ,Accepted 31 August 2007.

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☆ Disclosure: the authors have reported no conflicts of interest.

PII: S0010-9452(07)00155-4

doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2007.08.018

Cortex
Volume 44, Issue 9 , Pages 1265-1270 , October 2008

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