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Treatment of Primary Progressive Aphasia [PDF]

Current Treatment Options in Neurology, 2015
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a neurodegenerative disease that primarily affects language functions and often begins in the fifth or sixth decade of life. The devastating effects on work and home life call for the investigation of treatment alternatives.
Donna C, Tippett, Argye E, Hillis, Kyrana, Tsapkini   +2 more
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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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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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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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Visuospatial Functioning in the Primary Progressive Aphasias [PDF]

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2017
Abstract Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify whether the three main primary progressive aphasia (PPA) variants would show differential profiles on measures of visuospatial cognition.
Watson, Christa L, Possin, Katherine, Allen, I Elaine, Hubbard, H Isabel, Meyer, Marita, Welch, Ariane E, Rabinovici, Gil D, Rosen, Howard, Rankin, Katherine P, Miller, Zachary, Santos-Santos, Miguel A, Kramer, Joel H, Miller, Bruce L, Gorno-Tempini, Maria Luisa   +13 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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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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