AD is a degenerative brain syndrome characterized by a progressive decline in memory, thinking, comprehension, calculation, language, learning capacity, and judgment sufficient to impair personal activities of daily living.
The news reports cited two medical problems: memory loss and difficulties in comprehension from recent and progressive cerebrovascular damage, and nerve damage to his legs as a complication of diabetes.
Thus, it was also supposed that, through a progressive process of script generalization, a "situated" comprehension of emotions arises.
A significant impact of a computerized progressive attention training program on improving reading comprehension and passage copying of children with ADHD is shown by Shalev et al [ 34].
Dementia is characterized by a progressive decline in intellect, including memory, learning, orientation, language, comprehension and judgement [ 1].
Although adjectives directly refer to semantic attributes, no study has explicitly examined the comprehension of adjectives in the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia (svPPA).
"Dementia" is defined as a "clinical syndrome due to disease of the brain, usually of a progressive nature, which leads to disturbances of multiple higher cortical functions, including memory, thinking, orientation, comprehension, calculation, learning capacity, language, and judgment".
About half of cases present with behavioural change (behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia), and the remainder present with language decline (primary progressive aphasia) characterised either by impaired speech production (progressive non-fluent aphasia) or by impaired word comprehension and semantic memory (that is, memory for meaning) (semantic dementia).
The GRN-mutation-negative patient with progressive aphasia presented with reduced speech output and anomia without speech apraxia but with emergence of a single word comprehension deficit, consistent with previous descriptions of GRN-related progressive aphasia (Rohrer et al., 2010 a ).
