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The ‘Better Conversations with Primary Progressive Aphasia (BCPPA)’ program for people with PPA (Primary Progressive Aphasia): protocol for a randomised controlled pilot study

Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2018
Background Primary progressive aphasia is a language-led dementia, often associated with frontotemporal dementia. It presents as insidious deterioration of language skills (e.g.
Anna Volkmer, Aimee Spector, Jason D Warren, Suzanne Beeke   +3 more
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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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Investigating Verbal Repetition in Persian-Speaking Patients with the Semantic Variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia Compared to Healthy Individuals

Journal of Modern Rehabilitation, 2023
Introduction: Language deficit is regarded as one of the most important hallmarks of primary progressive aphasia. This study aims to analyze the nature of verbal repetition ability in a group of patients suffering from the semantic variant of primary ...
Omid Azad
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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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Improving language mapping in clinical fMRI through assessment of grammar. [PDF]

, 2017
IntroductionBrain surgery in the language dominant hemisphere remains challenging due to unintended post-surgical language deficits, despite using pre-surgical functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) and intraoperative cortical stimulation.
Benjamin, Christopher, Bookheimer, Susan, Cho, Andrew, Curtiss, Susan, Japardi, Kevin, Jones, Michael, Kuhn, Taylor, Moody, Teena, Połczyńska, Monika, Vigil, Celia   +9 more
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Primary progressive aphasia: analisys of 16 cases [PDF]

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2001
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is an intriguing syndrome, showing some peculiar aspects that differentiate it from classical aphasic pictures caused by focal cerebral lesions or dementia. The slow and progressive deterioration of language occurring in
Márcia Radanovic, Mirna Lie Hosogi Senaha, Letícia Lessa Mansur, Ricardo Nitrini, Valéria Santoro Bahia, Maria Teresa Carthery, Flávia Nóbrega Freire Aires, Sandra Christina Mathias, Paulo Caramelli   +8 more
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Symptom‐based staging for logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia

European Journal of Neurology
Logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia (lvPPA) is a major variant presentation of Alzheimer's disease (AD) that signals the importance of communication dysfunction across AD phenotypes.
Chris J D Hardy, C. Taylor-Rubin, Beatrice Taylor, Emma Harding, Aida Suarez Gonzalez, Jessica Jiang, Laura Thompson, R. Kingma, Anthipa Chokesuwattanaskul, Ffion Walker, Suzie Barker, E. Brotherhood, C. Waddington, Olivia Wood, Nicola Zimmermann, N. Kupeli, K. Yong, Paul M. Camic, Joshua Stott, Charles R. Marshall, Neil P. Oxtoby, Jonathan D Rohrer, Frankie O'Shea, A. Volkmer, Sebastian J. Crutch, J. Warren   +25 more
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Primary progressive aphasia [PDF]

Česká a slovenská neurologie a neurochirurgie, 2020
Zsolt Cséfalvay, Radoslava Bajtošová, Jiří Keller, Eva Straková, Radoslav Matěj, Rober Rusina   +5 more
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FDG PET and MRI in logopenic primary progressive aphasia versus dementia of the Alzheimer's type. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
The logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia is an atypical clinical variant of Alzheimer's disease which is typically characterized by left temporoparietal atrophy on magnetic resonance imaging and hypometabolism on F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose ...
Ajay Madhavan, Jennifer L Whitwell, Stephen D Weigand, Joseph R Duffy, Edythe A Strand, Mary M Machulda, Nirubol Tosakulwong, Matthew L Senjem, Jeffrey L Gunter, Val J Lowe, Ronald C Petersen, Clifford R Jack, Keith A Josephs   +12 more
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The natural history of primary progressive aphasia: beyond aphasia

Journal of Neurology, 2021
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is divided into three prototypical subtypes that are all characterized by their single core symptom of aphasia. Although later in their course, other cognitive, behavioral, and motor domains may become involved, little ...
H. Ulugut, S. Stek, Lianne E E Wagemans, R. Jutten, M. A. Keulen, F. Bouwman, N. Prins, A. Lemstra, W. Krudop, C. Teunissen, B. V. van Berckel, R. Ossenkoppele, F. Barkhof, W. M. van der Flier, P. Scheltens, Y. Pijnenburg   +15 more
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