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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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Less is more in language production: an information-theoretic analysis of agrammatism in primary progressive aphasia

Brain Communications, 2023
Agrammatism is a disorder of language production characterized by short, simplified sentences, the omission of function words, an increased use of nouns over verbs and a higher use of heavy verbs.
Neguine Rezaii, B. Ren, M. Quimby, D. Hochberg, B. Dickerson   +4 more
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Bilingual Primary Progressive Aphasia: A Scoping Review of Assessment and Treatment Practices

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2023
Background: Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a neurodegenerative syndrome characterized by speech and/or language impairment with relatively spared cognition.
S. Grasso, Camille A Wagner Rodríguez, Núria Montagut Colomer, Sonia-Karin Marqués Kiderle, R. Sánchez-Valle, Miguel Ángel Santos Santos   +5 more
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Spared speech fluency is associated with increased functional connectivity in the speech production network in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia

Brain Communications, 2023
Semantic variant primary progressive aphasia is a clinical syndrome characterized by marked semantic deficits, anterior temporal lobe atrophy and reduced connectivity within a distributed set of regions belonging to the functional network associated with
M. Montembeault, Z. Miller, Amandine Géraudie, P. Pressman, Antoine Slegers, Carly Millanski, Abigail E. Licata, Buddhika M Ratnasiri, M. Mandelli, M. Henry, Y. Cobigo, H. Rosen, B. Miller, S. Brambati, M. Gorno-Tempini, Giovanni Battistella   +15 more
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Structural correlates of language processing in primary progressive aphasia

Brain Communications, 2023
Understanding the relationships between brain structure and language behaviour in primary progressive aphasia provides crucial information about these diseases’ pathomechanisms.
Curtiss A. Chapman, M. Polyakova, Karsten Mueller, C. Weise, K. Fassbender, K. Fliessbach, J. Kornhuber, M. Lauer, S. Anderl-Straub, A. Ludolph, J. Prudlo, A. Staiger, M. Synofzik, J. Wiltfang, L. Riedl, J. Diehl-Schmid, M. Otto, A. Danek, G. Hartwigsen, M. Schroeter   +19 more
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Principles and philosophies for speech and language therapists working with people with primary progressive aphasia: an international expert consensus

Disability and Rehabilitation, 2022
Purpose Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a language-led dementia associated with Alzheimer’s pathology and fronto-temporal lobar degeneration. Multiple tailored speech and language interventions have been developed for people with PPA.
A. Volkmer, J. Cartwright, L. Ruggero, A. Beales, J. Gallée, S. Grasso, M. Henry, R. Jokel, J. Kindell, R. Khayum, M. Pozzebon, E. Rochon, C. Taylor-Rubin, R. Townsend, F. Walker, S. Beeke, D. Hersh   +16 more
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Understanding the multidimensional cognitive deficits of logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia

Brain : a journal of neurology, 2022
The logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia is characterized by early deficits in language production and phonological short-term memory, attributed to left-lateralized temporoparietal, inferior parietal and posterior temporal neurodegeneration.
S. Ramanan, M. Irish, K. Patterson, J. Rowe, M. Gorno-Tempini, M. L. Lambon Ralph   +5 more
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Automated Detection of Speech Timing Alterations in Autopsy-Confirmed Nonfluent/Agrammatic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia

Neurology, 2022
Background and Objectives Motor speech function, including speech timing, is a key domain for diagnosing nonfluent/agrammatic variant primary progressive aphasia (nfvPPA).
Adolfo M. García, A. Welch, M. Mandelli, M. Henry, S. Lukic, María José Torres Prioris, J. Deleon, Buddhika M Ratnasiri, D. L. Lorca-Puls, B. Miller, W. Seeley, A. Vogel, M. Gorno-Tempini   +12 more
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The Reliability of Telepractice Administration of the Western Aphasia Battery-Revised in Persons With Primary Progressive Aphasia.

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2022
PURPOSE The use of telepractice in the field of communication disorders offers an opportunity to provide care for those with primary progressive aphasia (PPA).
Leela A Rao, Angela C. Roberts, R. Schafer, A. Rademaker, Erin Blaze, Marissa Esparza, Elizabeth Salley, Christina A Coventry, S. Weintraub, M. Mesulam, E. Rogalski   +10 more
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Primary progressive aphasia and motor neuron disease: A review

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2022
Background This study aims at reviewing, within the framework of motor neuron disease-frontotemporal degeneration (MND-FTD)-spectrum disorders, evidence on the co-occurrence between primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and MND in order to profile such a ...
E. Aiello, Sarah Feroldi, G. De Luca, Lucilla Guidotti, Eleonora Arrigoni, I. Appollonio, F. Solca, L. Carelli, B. Poletti, F. Verde, V. Silani, N. Ticozzi   +11 more
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