Restoration of conceptual knowledge in a case of semantic dementia.

We describe the case of a patient with SD who showed greater generalization of learning following a conceptual enrichment therapy than when learning items in a word-retrieval therapy. Our results suggest that enhancing an item's semantic network connections may result in improved generalization of learning in SD. A learning mechanism in the presence of compromised hippocampi is also discussed.
PMID: 24592963 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Neurocase - March 5, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Suárez-González A, Heredia CG, Savage SA, Gil-Néciga E, García-Casares N, Franco-Macías E, Berthier ML, Caine D Tags: Neurocase Source Type: research