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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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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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The Landscape Montage Technique for diagnosing frontotemporal dementia starting as primary progressive aphasia: a case report

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, Kazunari Ishii, Isao Kubota, Osamu Shirakawa   +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, Tathiana Baczynski, Larissa Sena, Romário de Macedo Espíndola, Natia Horato, Antonio Egidio Nardi, Valeska Marinho   +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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Clinical Correlates of Alzheimer's Disease Cerebrospinal Fluid Analytes in Primary Progressive Aphasia

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, Molly Ungrady, Amy Halpin, Charles Jester, Corey T. McMillan, David J. Irwin, Katheryn A. Cousins, Murray Grossman   +7 more
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Agnosia for accents in primary progressive aphasia. [PDF]

, 2013
As an example of complex auditory signal processing, the analysis of accented speech is potentially vulnerable in the progressive aphasias. However, the brain basis of accent processing and the effects of neurodegenerative disease on this processing are ...
Agustus, JL, Cifelli, A, Downey, LE, Fletcher, PD, Hailstone, JC, Schott, JM, Tyndall, MH, Warren, JD, Warrington, EK   +8 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, Marta Lipiec, Diana Dołomisiewicz , Katarzyna Jóźwik, Aleksandra Kowalska   +4 more
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Non-verbal episodic memory deficits in primary progressive aphasias are highly predictive of underlying amyloid pathology [PDF]

, 2016
Diagnostic distinction of primary progressive aphasias (PPA) remains challenging, in particular for the logopenic (lvPPA) and nonfluent/agrammatic (naPPA) variants.
Ahmed, Baddeley, Ballard, Croot, Dubois, Flanagan, Gorno-Tempini, Gorno-Tempini, Gorno-Tempini, Hodges, Irish, Leyton, Machulda, Mioshi, Mioshi, Osterrieth, Piguet, Piguet, Pike, Savage, Schmidt, Wear, Weintraub, Wilson, Wilson   +24 more
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