Dementia
Research results from U. Noppeney and colleagues update understanding of dementia
Published in Virus Weekly, August 7th, 2007
According to recent research published in the journal Brain, "Both herpes simplex virus encephalitis (HSVE) and semantic dementia (SD) typically affect anterior temporal lobe structures. Using voxel-based morphometry (VBM), this study compared the structural damage in four HSVE patients having a semantic deficit particularly affecting knowledge of living things and six SD patients with semantic impairment across all categories tested."
"Each patient was assessed relative to a group of control subjects. In both patient groups, left anterior temporal damage extended into the amygdala. In patients with HSVE, extensive grey matter loss was observed predominantly in...
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Source: Virus Weekly (2007-08-07)
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