Critical review of the Appropriate Use Criteria for amyloid imaging: Effect on diagnosis and patient care [PDF]
, 2016 INTRODUCTION: The utility of the Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) for amyloid imaging is not established. METHODS: Fifty-three cognitively impaired patients with clinical F18-florbetapir imaging were classified as early and late onset, as well as ...
Apostolova, Liana G. +10 more
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A Case of Logopenic Variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia with Parkinsonism and Anosmia
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Reports, 2020 A 69-year-old right-handed woman developed difficulty naming objects and word-finding. The clinical features of language disorder and predominant atrophy on MRI and predominant hypoperfusion on 123 I-IMP SPECT in the left temporo-parietal junction area ...
Shoichi Sasaki
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Understanding neuropsychiatric diseases, analyzing the peptide sharing between infectious agents and the Language-associated nMda 2a protein [PDF]
, 2016 Language disorders and infections may occur together and often concur, to a different extent and via different modalities, in characterizing brain pathologies, such as schizophrenia, autism, epilepsies, bipolar disorders, frontotemporal neurodegeneration,
Lucchese, Guglielmo
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An interdisciplinary approach aiding the diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia: A case report
Dementia & NeuropsychologiaFrontotemporal dementia (FTD) is one of the most common causes of early-onset dementia with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) being the second-most-frequent form of this degenerative disease.
Nadia Shigaeff +5 more
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Correlating familial Alzheimer’s disease gene mutations with clinical phenotype [PDF]
, 2010 Alzheimer’s disease (AD) causes devastating cognitive impairment and an intense research effort is currently devoted to developing improved treatments for it.
Rossor, M.N., Ryan, N.S.
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How to get by with half a loop - An investigation of visual and auditory codes in a case of impaired phonological short-term memory (pSTM). [PDF]
, 2018 In the field of cognitive neuropsychology of phonological short-term memory (pSTM), a key debate surrounds the issue of how impairment on tasks deemed to tap this system imply a dissociable phonological input and output buffer system, with the ...
Allport +51 more
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A fluência na afasia progressiva primária logopênica
Audiology: Communication ResearchEsta pesquisa é um estudo de caso que tem como objetivo analisar, longitudinalmente, a fluência de um sujeito com Afasia Progressiva Primária (APP) Logopênica.
Karoline Pimentel dos Santos +2 more
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Diagnostic utility of FDG-PET in the differential diagnosis between different forms of primary progressive aphasia [PDF]
, 2018 PURPOSE: A joint effort of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) and the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) aims at clinical guidance for the use of FDG-PET in neurodegenerative diseases.
Agosta, F +13 more
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Present, past and future of Primary Progressive Aphasia: A bibliographic update
Revista de Psicología, 2020 The present study revises the literature regarding the current knowledge about Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). The study presents the main diagnostic criteria for PPA and those used to classify patients according to international criteria in one of ...
Federico G. Soriano +1 more
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Auditory object cognition in dementia [PDF]
, 2011 The cognition of nonverbal sounds in dementia has been relatively little explored. Here we undertook a systematic study of nonverbal sound processing in patient groups with canonical dementia syndromes comprising clinically diagnosed typical amnestic ...
Buckley, A +6 more
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