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Primary progressive aphasia with parkinsonism [PDF]
Movement Disorders, 2013 ABSTRACTA 65‐year‐old man presented with word‐finding difficulty and gait disturbance. His speech was nonfluent with word retrieval impairment and difficulties with sentence repetition. Other cognitive domains were intact initially. He developed asymmetrical bradykinesia, rigidity and a rest tremor.
Doherty, Karen M +4 more
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BMC Geriatrics, 2021 Background Primary progressive aphasia is a language-led dementia resulting in a gradual dissolution of language. Primary progressive aphasia has a significant psychosocial impact on both the person and their families.
Anna Volkmer +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2023 BackgroundPrimary progressive aphasia is a clinical dementia syndrome secondary to neurodegenerative disease characterized by language-related difficulties. Currently, there is no effective treatment for language impairment in primary progressive aphasia.
Shinji Higashi +7 more
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White matter disease correlates with lexical retrieval deficits in primary progressive aphasia
Frontiers in Neurology, 2013 Objective: To relate fractional anisotropy changes associated with the semantic and logopenic variants of primary progressive aphasia to measures of lexical retrieval.Methods: We collected neuropsychological testing, volumetric MRI, and diffusion ...
John P. Powers +6 more
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2020 Background The Landscape Montage Technique was originally developed by Hisao Nakai, a Japanese psychiatrist, to pursue the possibility and application of a psychotherapeutic approach using drawing for patients with schizophrenia.
Masahiko Takaya +3 more
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Use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in the treatment of nonfluent primary progressive aphasia: a case report [PDF]
Dementia & Neuropsychologia, 2023 Primary progressive aphasia comprises a group of neurodegenerative diseases characterized by progressive speech and language dysfunction. Neuroimaging (structural and functional), biomarkers, and neuropsychological assessments allow for early diagnosis ...
Natália Maria Lins Martins +6 more
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Primary Progressive Aphasia and Stroke Aphasia
Continuum, 2018 This article summarizes the clinical and anatomic features of the three named variants of primary progressive aphasia (PPA): semantic variant PPA, nonfluent/agrammatic variant PPA, and logopenic variant PPA. Three stroke aphasia syndromes that resemble the PPA variants (Broca aphasia, Wernicke aphasia, and conduction aphasia) are also presented ...
Murray, Grossman, David J, Irwin
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2019 Background: While primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) pathology due to tau or TDP, clinical-pathological studies also demonstrate many cases have Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology.
Catherine Norise +7 more
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Speech disorders in primary progressive aphasia (PPA)
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2022 Introduction : Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a group of neurodegenerative disorders whose main feature is speech and language dysfunction. There are three main forms of PPA - non-fluent variant - agrammatic (nfvPPA), semantic variant (svPPA) and ...
Katarzyna Mielniczek +4 more
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Systematic Reviews, 2021 Background Progressive language difficulties arise in many neurodegenerative conditions, causing significant impact upon patients and families. This occurs most obviously in primary progressive aphasia (PPA) but can also occur within other forms of ...
Sharon A. Savage +4 more
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