Once the victim of comparative neglect, the study of language in patients with dementia is beginning to flourish. It is important for both practical and theoretical reasons. Language dysfunction can be prominent in patients with dementia and indeed may be the presenting symptom (e.g. Pogacar and...
Speech and language assessment in 30 patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type and in 70 normal controls revealed that all Alzheimer patients were aphasic. Throughout most of the course, the language disorder resembled transcortical sensory aphasia, and increasing language impairment correlated with...
The diagnosis of slowly progressive aphasia in our patients predicted a course of illness with increasing attrition of cognitive abilities and occurrence of behavioral and neurological deficits embedded in the language dysfunction, culminating in dementia. The progression was not uniform. Slowly progressive...
Semantic dementia and fluent primary progressive aphasia: two sides of the same coin? 词义性痴呆和流利的原发性进行性失语: 同一硬币的两面? 来自期刊摘选 2. AphAsia and comprehension of words, caused by damage and temporal lobes of the Brain. 失语(亦称言语困难):因大脑损害引起的言语功能障碍. 来自...
ABBR: PPA A form of dementia marked by the inability to recall the names of things, to read, or to express oneself with speech The disorder gradually worsens and may ultimately produce other cognitive deficits. Early in the course of the disease, other brain functions of daily living are pre...
indicated that the drug can enhance the recovery of motor function in some patients.Cortical stimulation, in which the area of the brain responsible for motor control is stimulated by electrical pulses sent from an implanted device, has met with mixed success in severely compromised stroke patients...
Efficacy of the Peptidergic Nootropic Drug Cerebrolysin in Patients with Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type (SDAT) Cerebrolysin is a peptidergic nootropic drug with a multimodal mechanism of action. It is expected to have a positive influence on neurodegenerative diseas... E Rüther,R Ritter,M ...
Aphasia and dementia in childhood chronic lead encephalopathy: a curable form of acquired mental impairment 来自 NCBI 喜欢 0 阅读量: 19 作者:C Romano,ML Grossi-Bianchi 摘要: PubMed comprises more than 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online ...
11. Methods Results of repetition and reading aloud in 13 patients with conduction aphasia were analyzed. 分析13例传导性失语患者的词复述和朗读障碍特点。 12. Objective To investigate the characteristics of repetition and reading aloud disturbances of the patients with conduction aphasia. 目的 探讨传导性...
A more generalized state of dementia may have emerged in the other two patients, but only after 7 years of progressive and debilitating aphasia. Neurodiagnostic procedures were consistent with preferential involvement of the left perisylvian region. In one patient, cortical biopsy did not show any ...