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Simona Maria Brambati

Centre de Recherche IUGM
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Progressive nonfluent aphasia and its characteristic motor speech deficits

JM Ogar, NF Dronkers, SM Brambati… - Alzheimer Disease & …, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA) is a clinical syndrome characterized by motor speech
impairment and agrammatism, with relative sparing of single word comprehension and …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical, anatomical, and pathological features in the three variants of primary progressive aphasia: a review

M Montembeault, SM Brambati… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
… Therefore, clinically, these patients are diagnosed with PSP-s or CBS with speech/language
features (35, 36). Conversely, mild deficits, such as mild limb apraxia or slowness in fine …

[HTML][HTML] The challenge of mapping the human connectome based on diffusion tractography

…, B Pinsard, C Bedetti, M Desrosiers, S Brambati… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Tractography based on non-invasive diffusion imaging is central to the study of human brain
connectivity. To date, the approach has not been systematically validated in ground truth …

Connected speech features from picture description in Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review

…, M Montembeault, SM Brambati - Journal of …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
The language changes that occur over the course of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) can impact
communication abilities and have profound functional consequences. Picture description …

The logopenic/phonological variant of primary progressive aphasia

ML Gorno-Tempini, SM Brambati, V Ginex, J Ogar… - Neurology, 2008 - AAN Enterprises
… Language and cognitive functions were assessed in each patient’s native language with
comparable measures. We tested fluency, single-word and sentence repetition, word–picture …

The role of age of acquisition and language usage in early, high‐proficient bilinguals: An fMRI study during verbal fluency

…, J Abutalebi, E Paulesu, S Brambati… - Human brain …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
We assessed the effects of age of acquisition and language exposure on the cerebral
correlates of lexical retrieval in high‐proficient, early‐acquisition bilinguals. Functional MRI was …

The cognitive and neural expression of semantic memory impairment in mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer's disease

S Joubert, SM Brambati, J Ansado, EJ Barbeau… - Neuropsychologia, 2010 - Elsevier
Semantic deficits in Alzheimer's disease have been widely documented, but little is known
about the integrity of semantic memory in the prodromal stage of the illness. The aims of the …

Language networks in semantic dementia

…, J Neuhaus, BL Miller, NF Dronkers, SM Brambati… - Brain, 2010 - academic.oup.com
… Diffusion gradients were applied in 55 directions uniformly distributed on a sphere through
electrostatic repulsion with b = 2000 s/mm 2 . Peak gradient strength was 40 mT/m. An image …

Atrophy progression in semantic dementia with asymmetric temporal involvement: a tensor-based morphometry study

SM Brambati, KP Rankin, J Narvid, WW Seeley… - Neurobiology of …, 2009 - Elsevier
We performed a longitudinal anatomical study to map the progression of gray matter atrophy
in anatomically defined predominantly left (LTLV) and right (RTLV) temporal lobe variants of …

The neural cost of the auditory perception of language switches: an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study in bilinguals

J Abutalebi, SM Brambati, JM Annoni… - The Equilibrium of …, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
… The sentence duration (intervals between language switches) was variable, from a minimum
of 3 to a maximum of 19 s, not allowing the listener to form expectations of the language …