[Semantic dementia associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis]

L C de Souza; M Sarazin; D Samri; A Kas; S Léhericy; R Lévy; B Dubois

doi:10.1016/j.neurol.2008.06.008

[Semantic dementia associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis]

Rev Neurol (Paris). 2009 Mar;165(3):278-81. doi: 10.1016/j.neurol.2008.06.008. Epub 2008 Aug 28.

[Article in French]

Authors

L C de Souza¹, M Sarazin, D Samri, A Kas, S Léhericy, R Lévy, B Dubois

Affiliation

¹ Centre de mémoire, de ressource et de recherche (CMRR) d'IDF, hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47-83, boulevard de l'hôpital, 75651 Paris cedex 13, France. leocruzsouza@hotmail.com

PMID: 18760427
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2008.06.008

Abstract

The association semantic dementia-amyotrophic lateral sclerosis has been rarely reported in the literature. We report a case study of a patient with a severe prosopagnosia in relation with semantic dementia associated, 12 months later, with a motor neuron disease.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / complications*
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / diagnosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / psychology
Atrophy
Brain / pathology
Cerebral Cortex / diagnostic imaging
Cerebral Cortex / pathology
Dementia / diagnosis
Dementia / etiology*
Dementia / psychology
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Middle Aged
Prosopagnosia / etiology
Temporal Lobe / diagnostic imaging
Temporal Lobe / pathology
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon