Cited by 772Dementia and Cognitive Impairment ResearchNeurobiology of Language and BilingualismAlzheimer's disease research and treatments

Semantic dementia: a unique clinicopathological syndrome

Hodges, John R, Patterson, Karalyn·2007·The Lancet Neurology

Abstract

Semantic dementia (SD), one of the main clinical variants of frontotemporal dementia, presents a unique combination of clinical and imaging abnormalities. We describe the epidemiological, cognitive, and radiological features of SD. The distinctive and consistent neuropsychological deficits in this disorder have had a major effect on current conceptions of the organisation of semantic memory and its links to episodic memory, language, and perceptual processes. Structural (MRI) and functional (fluorodeoxyglucose-PET) studies in SD emphasise the role of the temporopolar and perirhinal cortices. Unlike other frontotemporal dementia syndromes, the neuropathological findings in SD are fairly predictable: most patients have ubiquitin-positive, tau-negative neuronal inclusions.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/s1474-4422(07)70266-1

Cites

125 of 125 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Semantic dementia is typified by progressive degeneration of the anterior temporal lobes, most severe on the ventral surface, including the anterior temporal fusiform gyrus, temporal pole, anterior hippocampus and amygdala.

    “From a neural standpoint, semantic dementia is typified by the progressive degeneration of the anterior temporal lobes (Hodges and Patterson, 2007), which is most severe on the ventral surface, including the anterior temporal fusiform gyrus, temporal pole, anterior hippocampus and amygdala (Chan et al., 2001;Galton et al., 2001;Davies et al., 2004;Whitwell et al., 2005;Mion et al., 2010).”

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Hodges, J. R., & Patterson, K.
Affiliations
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (GB)
Venue
The Lancet Neurology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2007-11
Volume
6
Issue
11
Pages
1004-1014
ISSN
1474-4422 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2138973641
Cited by
772
References
125
Citations by year
2026: 18 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 37 · 2023: 27 · 2022: 31 · 2021: 50 · 2020: 48 · 2019: 49 · 2018: 31 · 2017: 49 · 2016: 37 · 2015: 44 · 2014: 50 · 2013: 47 · 2012: 58
FWCI
5.54
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • The Lancet Neurology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
Keywords
semantic dementia, frontotemporal dementia, semantic memory, perirhinal cortex, neuropsychological deficits, MRI findings, FDG-PET, episodic memory, language impairment
MeSH terms
Dementia, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Memory, Neuropsychological Tests, Temporal Lobe, Verbal Behavior, Positron-Emission Tomography

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review