primary progressive aphasia (PPAqualitative researchspouseBackground Although primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is characterized by progressive loss of language and communication skills, knowledge about the earliest emerging signs announcing the onset of this condition is limited. Aims To explore spousal ...
Granulomatous amebic encephalitis has an insidious onset of symptoms, with nonspecific complaints such as headache, nausea, vomiting, nuchal rigidity, fever,seizures, and behavioral changes. Focal neurologic signs eventually emerge, includingaphasia,ataxia, andcranial nerve palsies. As the disease progresses...
A subset of patients with the nonfluent variant of primary progressive aphasia (PPA) exhibit concomitant single-word comprehension problems, constituting a ‘mixed variant’ phenotype. This phenotype is rare and currently not fully characterized. The aim of this study was twofold: to assess the prev...
Primary progressive aphasias (PPAs) are a group of neurodegenerative diseases presenting with insidious and relentless language impairment. Three main PPA variants have been described: the non-fluent/agrammatic variant (nfvPPA), the semantic variant (svPPA), and the logopenic variant (lvPPA). At ...