title: [Hirotaka Tanabe].
abstract: Hirotaka Tanabe was a Japanese neuropsychiatrist engaged in neuropsychological research on cerebrovascular disease and dementia. He contributed widely to the symptomatology of dementia, especially in the field of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). He focused on clarifying the clinical features of a language disturbance, termed Gogi-aphasia by Imura (1943), in 7 patients with anterior temporal circumscribed atrophy. He attributed the nature of Gogi-aphasia to a selective impairment of semantic memory for words and proposed that the pathological process of lobar atrophy with temporal predominance might affect the semantic memory system. In addition, he described in detail the behavioral symptoms of FTD. In his later years, he adovocated a neuropsychological approach to psychiatry.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University.
authors.forename: Mamoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.forename: Ryuji
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fukuhara
authors.forename: Manabu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ikeda
mesh_terms: D001037:Aphasia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history*; D001284:Atrophy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D057180:Frontotemporal Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology; D058027:Neuropsychiatry / Q000266:history*