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Semantic dementia

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A progressive syndrome with deterioration of conceptual knowledge, often accompanied by fluent speech, anomia and poor word comprehension. Nonverbal semantic tests are important for distinguishing broad conceptual impairment from an isolated language-output problem.[ref]

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