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To identify the cognitive mechanism and etiology behind word-finding difficulties in a patient with a focal left thalamic infarction.

July 22, 2003Neurology

Semantic memory deficit with a left thalamic infarct

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To identify the cognitive mechanism and etiology behind word-finding difficulties in a patient with a focal left thalamic infarction.
Case examination of a single patient presenting with a focal left thalamic infarct.
Neuropsychological evaluation focused on word finding and semantic memory performance during feature-based object recall.
The patient demonstrated pronounced word-finding difficulties accompanied by a selective deficit in semantic memory for object recall from features.
Thalamic injury is proposed to disrupt electrical synchronization across cortical regions that encode distinct object features, impairing word retrieval.

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Case report reveals selective semantic memory impairment after focal left thalamic infarct, suggesting thalamic disruption underlies word-finding deficits.

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Segal et al. (2003) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7a5cfb684c0941cf323d2d https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000073145.08816.e2

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Case report reveals selective semantic memory impairment after focal left thalamic infarct, suggesting thalamic disruption underlies word-finding deficits.

Semantic memory deficit with a left thalamic infarct

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