Semantic memory and frontal executive function during transient global amnesia
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Semantic memory and frontal executive function during transient global amnesia.
To assess semantic memory and frontal executive function, two patients underwent neuropsychological testing during transient global amnesia (TGA) and after an interval of 6-8 weeks. In spite of a profound deficit in anterograde verbal and non-verbal memory, semantic memory was normal, as judged by category fluency measures, picture naming, and picture-word and picture-picture matching, and read...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurocase
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1465-3656
DOI: 10.1093/neucas/2.1.51-g