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Memory in Degenerative Diseases of the Nervous System

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Clinical Disorders of Memory

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A large number of degenerative processes affect the brain causing impairment of cognitive and emotional functions. Identifiable patterns of neurological deficits are produced by different degenerative diseases as they affect different parts of the brain. However, deficits in cognition and emotions are much more global and their presence rarely localizes a lesion in specific parts of the brain. Albert and associates (1974) suggested that most of the degenerative diseases of the CNS may be divided functionally into two broad groups depending on whether they predominantly affect the cerebral cortex or the subcortical structures. The terms cortical and subcortical dementia imply patterns of impairment in cognitive and emotional functions.

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Khan, A.U. (1986). Memory in Degenerative Diseases of the Nervous System. In: Clinical Disorders of Memory. Critical Issues in Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5128-3_6

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