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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 beginning with a psychiatric disorder

Clinics, 2011
Leonardo Caixeta, Marcelo Caixeta
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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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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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Association of Regional Atrophy With Naming Decline in Primary Progressive Aphasia

Neurology, 2022
Background and Objectives Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a neurodegenerative condition that predominantly impairs language. Most investigations of how focal atrophy affects language consider 1 time point compared with healthy controls.
B. Breining, A. Faria, D. Tippett, Melissa D. Stockbridge, Erin L. Meier, B. Caffo, Olivia Hermann, R. Friedman, A. Meyer, K. Tsapkini, A. Hillis   +10 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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Silent Pauses and Speech Indices as Biomarkers for Primary Progressive Aphasia

Medicina, 2022
Background and Objectives: Recent studies highlight the importance of investigating biomarkers for diagnosing and classifying patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA).
C. Potagas, Zoi Nikitopoulou, G. Angelopoulou, D. Kasselimis, N. Laskaris, E. Kourtidou, V. Constantinides, A. Bougea, G. Paraskevas, Georgios K. Papageorgiou, D. Tsolakopoulos, S. Papageorgiou, E. Kapaki   +12 more
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Non-verbal sound processing in the primary progressive aphasias [PDF]

, 2010
Little is known about the processing of non-verbal sounds in the primary progressive aphasias. Here, we investigated the processing of complex non-verbal sounds in detail, in a consecutive series of 20 patients with primary progressive aphasia [12 with ...
Bamiou, D.-E., Crutch, S. J., Frost, C., Goll, J. C., Loo, J. H. Y., Rohrer, J. D., Warren, J. D.   +6 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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Differential linguistic features of verbal fluency in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia and primary progressive aphasia

Applied neuropsychology. Adult, 2022
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is an early-onset neurodegenerative disorder with a heterogeneous clinical presentation. Verbal fluency is regularly used as a sensitive measure of language ability, semantic memory, and executive functioning, but ...
Esther van den Berg, J. Dijkzeul, J. Poos, W. Eikelboom, J. van Hemmen, S. Franzen, F. J. de Jong, E. Dopper, J. Vonk, J. Papma, D. Satoer, L. Jiskoot, H. Seelaar   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source