12 Questions
What did Marsel Mesulam reintroduce the disorder as?
slowly progressive aphasia without generalized dementia
How did Mesulam describe the individuals in his seminal work?
gradually worsening language impairments
What language impairments did most of the individuals present with?
anomia
What was the average age of onset for the individuals described by Mesulam?
younger than the more common Alzheimer’s dementia
What term did Marsel Mesulam use to reintroduce the disorder previously referred to as 'focal' dementia?
slowly progressive aphasia without generalized dementia
What did Mesulam observe in the brains of the patients who had recently died?
atrophy circumscribed to areas related to language
What type of language impairments did most of the individuals in Mesulam's study present with?
anomia
What was the average age of onset of the disorder observed by Mesulam?
younger than the more common Alzheimer’s dementia
What term did Marsel Mesulam use to reintroduce the disorder in 1982?
slowly progressive aphasia without generalized dementia
How did Mesulam refer to the disorder as initially?
focal dementia
What were the most common language impairments observed in the individuals presented by Mesulam?
anomia
What was the average age of onset for the individuals mentioned by Mesulam?
younger than the more common Alzheimer’s dementia
Test your knowledge about language-based dementia and the concept of slowly progressive aphasia without generalized dementia. Explore the history and key insights related to these disorders.
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