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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, Marta Lipiec, Diana Dołomisiewicz , Katarzyna Jóźwik, Aleksandra Kowalska   +4 more
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Distinguishing Among Variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia with a Brief Multimodal Test of Nouns and Verbs [PDF]

Brain Sciences
Background: Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) variants include the non-fluent agrammatic (nfvPPA), logopenic (lvPPA), and semantic (svPPA), which differ in their effects on speech production. However, their impact on modality (oral vs.
Marco A. Lambert, Melissa D. Stockbridge, Lindsey Kelly, Isidora Diaz-Carr, Voss Neal, Argye E. Hillis   +5 more
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A decade with anomic primary progressive aphasia [PDF]

eNeurologicalSci
Some patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) demonstrate only anomia. The lack of longitudinal observations of anomic PPA precluded us from determining whether progressive anomic aphasia was simply an early stage of semantic or logopenic variants,
Shoko Ota, Kazuo Kakinuma, Wataru Narita, Yoshiyuki Nishio, Nobuko Kawakami, Ayane Tamagake, Shigenori Kanno, Minoru Matsuda, Kyoko Suzuki   +8 more
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Crossed aphasia in a left-handed patient with non-fluent variant of primary progressive aphasia with left asymmetric brain SPECT [PDF]

Dementia & Neuropsychologia, 2023
Primary progressive aphasia is a clinical syndrome caused by neurodegeneration of areas and neural networks involved in language, usually in the left hemisphere.
Paulo Roberto de Brito-Marques, Janaina Mariana de Araujo Miranda Brito-Marques   +1 more
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Hesitations in Primary Progressive Aphasia

Languages, 2023
Hesitations are often used by speakers in spontaneous speech not only to organise and prepare their speech but also to address any obstacles that may arise during delivery.
Lorraine Baqué, María Jesús Machuca
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Advances in Primary Progressive Aphasia

Brain Sciences, 2022
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a neurodegenerative syndrome characterized by progressive and predominant language impairment [...]
Jordi A. Matias-Guiu, Robert Laforce, Monica Lavoie, Rene L. Utianski   +3 more
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Longitudinal study of primary progressive aphasia in a patient with pathologically diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2021
Background Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease involving the deposition of pathologic amyloid-β and tau protein in the cerebral cortex. Alzheimer’s disease is commonly characterized by progressive impairment of recent memory.
Masahiko Takaya, Kazunari Ishii, Kazumasa Saigoh, Osamu Shirakawa   +3 more
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Therapy of Primary Progressive Aphasia in Current Research

Listy klinicke logopedie, 2022
Primary progressive aphasia is a neurodegenerative clinical syndrome with predominant speech and language dysfunction. There are currently no curative or symptomatic pharmacological treatments. Speech and Language Therapy represents the optimum treatment
Simona Hlaváčová
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Using the Medical Research Council framework and public involvement in the development of a communication partner training intervention for people with primary progressive aphasia (PPA): Better Conversations with PPA

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, Aimee Spector, Kate Swinburn, Jason D. Warren, Suzanne Beeke   +4 more
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Primary progressive aphasia

Неврология, нейропсихиатрия, психосоматика, 2019
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative diseases related to focal degenerations of the brain and mainly manifested by a gradual loss of speech functions.
V. A. Mikhailov, Yu. V. Kotsiubinskaya, N. Yu. Safonova, N. I. Ananieva, I. K. Stulov   +4 more
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