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Primary Progressive Aphasia (disorder)

Known as: Progressive Aphasia, Primary, PPA, Primary Progressive Aphasias 
A progressive form of dementia characterized by the global loss of language abilities and initial preservation of other cognitive functions. Fluent… (More)
National Institutes of Health

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1987-2017
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Primary Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia

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1936-2018
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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Classification of primary progressive aphasia and its variants.
This article provides a classification of primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and its 3 main variants to improve the uniformity of… (More)
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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Anatomy of language impairments in primary progressive aphasia.
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a clinical dementia syndrome characterized by progressive decline in language function but… (More)
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Connected speech production in three variants of primary progressive aphasia.
Primary progressive aphasia is a clinical syndrome defined by progressive deficits isolated to speech and/or language, and can be… (More)
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2010
2010
Multimodal predictors for Alzheimer disease in nonfluent primary progressive aphasia.
OBJECTIVE Alzheimer disease (AD) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) are hypothesized to cause clinically distinct forms… (More)
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Quantitative template for subtyping primary progressive aphasia.
BACKGROUND The syndrome of primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is diagnosed when a gradual failure of word usage or comprehension… (More)
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
The logopenic/phonological variant of primary progressive aphasia.
OBJECTIVE Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is characterized by isolated decline in language functions. Semantic dementia and… (More)
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Abeta amyloid and glucose metabolism in three variants of primary progressive aphasia.
OBJECTIVE Alzheimer's disease (AD) is found at autopsy in up to one third of patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA), but… (More)
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2008
2008
Galantamine in frontotemporal dementia and primary progressive aphasia.
BACKGROUND/AIMS The treatment of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) has been mainly symptomatic. Small randomized or open-label case… (More)
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Cognition and anatomy in three variants of primary progressive aphasia.
We performed a comprehensive cognitive, neuroimaging, and genetic study of 31 patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a… (More)
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Primary progressive aphasia: PPA and the language network.
Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) is a behaviorally focal dementia syndrome with deterioration of language functions but relative… (More)
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