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Value and efficacy of transcranial direct current stimulation in the rehabilitation of neurocognitive disorders: A critical review since 2000. [PDF]

, 2016
open3siNon-invasive brain stimulation techniques, including transcranial direct current stimulation (t-DCS) have been used in the rehabilitation of cognitive function in a spectrum of neurological disorders.
Davide Cappon, Marjan Jahanshahi, Patrizia Bisiacchi   +2 more
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A Middle-Aged Woman with Logopenic Progressive Aphasia as a Precursor of Alzheimer's Disease: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Case Reports in Neurological Medicine, 2011
Primary progressive aphasia is a neurodegenerative disorder that was recently classified into three types: fluent (semantic), nonfluent, and logopenic.
Stephanie M. Awad, Amer M. Awad
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Speech deterioration in an English-Shanghainese Speaker with Logopenic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Background and Purpose There are three forms of Primary Progressive Aphasia: nonfluent/agrammatic, semantic, and Logopenic (PPA-LV). Differential diagnosis of PPA requires multiple sources of information including assessment of connected speech ...
Gail Ramsberger, Anthony Pak Hin Kong, Lise Menn   +2 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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Logopenic and nonfluent variants of primary progressive aphasia are differentiated by acoustic measures of speech production [PDF]

, 2014
Differentiation of logopenic (lvPPA) and nonfluent/agrammatic (nfvPPA) variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia is important yet remains challenging since it hinges on expert based evaluation of speech and language production.
A Bechara, A Staiger, Adam P. Vogel, Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, AP Vogel, AP Vogel, CC Rowe, CE Leyton, Cristian E. Leyton, DB Fry, DS Knopman, E Maas, E-L Low, FH Guenther, G Kochanski, GD Rabinovici, GJ Zyski, HD Critchley, I Aichert, J Duffy, J-P Hosom, JD Rohrer, JD Rohrer, JD Rohrer, JM Ogar, John R. Hodges, JW Bohland, K Croot, K Rosen, KA Josephs, KA Josephs, KA Josephs, Kirrie J. Ballard, KJ Ballard, KJ Ballard, KJ Ballard, KJ Ballard, M Laganaro, M Laganaro, M Mesulam, M Sollberger, M-EA Courson, MA Rogers, MF Folstein, Michael Hornberger, ML Gorno-Tempini, ML Gorno-Tempini, P Boersma, PJ Nestor, R Varley, RD Kent, RD Kent, RM Crum, S Amici, S Ash, S Savage, SA Sajjadi, Sharon Savage, SM Wilson, V Stockmal, V Young, VL Villemagne, W Ziegler, Y Kotani   +63 more
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Effectiveness of rTMS on Working Memory and Inhibitory Impairments in Patients With Post‐Stroke Executive Deficits

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Considerable efforts have been dedicated to developing effective treatments for post‐stroke executive impairment (PSEI), among which repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has shown great potential. This study aimed to investigate the therapeutic effects of high‐frequency rTMS on working memory (WM) and response ...
Mengting Lao, Rongwei Du, Zhujun Wang, Yang Gao, Meiling Cheng, Xianglong Wang, Wen Wu   +6 more
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Alzheimer's Disease Co‐Pathology and Cognitive Impairment in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objectives Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) share neuropathological features, including tau, amyloid, and TDP‐43 pathology. This study investigated whether AD‐related pathological changes are associated with cognitive impairment ALS. Methods Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF total‐tau, phosphorylated‐tau, beta‐amyloid) and plasma
Elisabeth Kasper, Annaliis Lehto, Alexandra Jürs, Nina Nordmann, Oliver Peters, Julian Hellmann, Josef Priller, Eike Jakob Spruth, Gabor C. Petzold, Ina Voigt, Patrick Weydt, Sarah Bernsen, Elisabeth Dinter, Björn Falkenburger, René Günther, Emrah Düzel, Wenzel Glanz, Matthis Synofzik, Lukas Beichert, Annika Spottke, Michael Wagner, Frederic Brosseron, Matthias C. Schmid, Annett Halle, Jochen Herms, Anja Schneider, Stefan Teipel, Johannes Prudlo, Manuela Neumann, Andreas Hermann   +29 more
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Comparing Individuals With PPA to Individuals With AD: Cognitive and Linguistic Profiles

Frontiers in Communication, 2022
Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) is a degenerative condition characterized by the progressive loss of language function. In PPA, aphasia is the most prominent deficit at onset.
Nomiki Karpathiou, Nomiki Karpathiou, Maria Kambanaros   +2 more
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Neologistic jargon aphasia and agraphia in primary progressive aphasia [PDF]

, 2009
The terms 'jargon aphasia' and 'jargon agraphia' describe the production of incomprehensible language containing frequent phonological, semantic or neologistic errors in speech and writing, respectively.
Rohrer, JD, Rossor, MN, Warren, JD
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Spelling Intervention in Post-Stroke Aphasia and Primary Progressive Aphasia

Behavioural Neurology, 2013
Spelling–a core language skill–is commonly affected in neurological diseases such as stroke and Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). We present two case studies of the same spelling therapy (learning of phoneme-to-grapheme correspondences with help from ...
Kyrana Tsapkini, Argye E. Hillis
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