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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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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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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

Listy klinicke logopedie, 2018
Recently, clinical speech and language pathologists are facing a new challenge, diagnosing and suggesting intervention strategies for patients with progressive aphasia. This clinical syndrome differs in many aspects from classical vascular aphasia.
Zsolt Cséfalvay, Robert Rusina
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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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Feasibility study of Internet video-based speech-language activity for outpatients with primary progressive aphasia.

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, Yuko Koshibe, Takehiro Miyazaki, Ryohei Watanabe, Hanako Nakanome, Takeshi Inoue, Takashi Asada, Tetsuaki Arai   +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, Corey T. McMillan, Caroline C. Brun, Paul A. Yushkevich, Hui eZhang, James C. Gee, Murray eGrossman   +6 more
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