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| ArticleTitle | A dialogue to Prof. Albert on an issue of Gogi-aphasia |
| Language | J |
| AuthorList | Kenjiro Komori |
| Affiliation | Department of Neuropsychiatry, Neuroscience, Ehime Graduate School of Medicine |
| Publication | Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology: 25 (4), 269-273, 2009 |
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| Abstract | Gogi (word meaning)-aphasia, with impairments in both producing and comprehending word together with relatively spared phonological and syntactic aspects of language, is the syndrome of selective loss of semantic memory for word (Tanabe et al, 1992). Prof. Albert remarked that Gogi-aphasia is a language symptom of semantic dementia in his comprehensive lecture on aphasia. He also added a comment that in order to prove the role of the anterior temporal lobe (L-ATL) as a center of semantic memory for words, we should see a stroke Gogi-aphasic patient with left anterior temporal lobe (L-ATL) lesion. Tanabe et al. (1996) observed Gogi-aphasia in a case of herpes simplex encephalitis with a damage to the left anterior temporal lobe. That case might provide a proof that unilateral damage to the L-ATL could produce a selective impairment of semantic memory for word. Though further attention should be paid to determine clinico-anatomical relationship between symptom and the lesion. |
| Keywords | Gogi-aphasia, semantic dementia, herpes simplex encephalitis, left anterior temporal lobe (L-ATL) |
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