61. Dementia More likely to have change in level of consciousness. primary progressive aphasiaprogressive aphasia without true dementia. Jacob Creutzfeld Disease http://neuroland.com/deg/dementia.htm

Neuroland Neurology information Click on the brain to index page Search NeuroLand Neuro disease Notes ... Neuro Med Overview of Dementia Population is aging Prevalence of dementia increases with age Amnesia: Isolated memory loss Amnesia may be the first sign of dementia Delirium is a deficit of attention Diagnostic Criteria for Dementia Impaired social or occupational function Impaired memory, plus one or more area of the following cognitive functions Abstract/problem solving Judgment Language Personality Clear consciousness Differentiate Depression from Dementia Depression Dementia Relatively rapid onset Depressive symptoms start before dementia Patient complains more than family Appears depressed Response of "I don't know" Inconsistent Cognitive impairment Response to antidepressant very slow onset depressive symptoms develop after cognitive decline Patient tends to deny any memory problem May or may not appear depressed Try to give an excuse or general answer Cognitive impairment fairly consistent Antidepressant may have no effect Causes of Dementia Alzheimer's dementia Multiinfarct dementia Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus 3 main symptoms: Dementia, Gait Apraxia, Incontinence

62. Neurologic Manifestations Staffordshire Univ. (UK); Aphasia A Language Disorder J Xiong;primary progressive aphasia Newsletter NorthWestern U (US); The http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/c10.597.html

search help staff Neurologic Manifestations Patients and laypersons looking for guidance among the target sources of this collection of links are strongly advised to review the information retrieved with their professional health care provider. Communication Disorders Int'l Dyslexia Association, IDA , including the What is Dyslexia? Children and Adults with Dyslexia - Educational Issues - ERIC-EC The British Dyslexia Association - (UK) Dyslexia - The Gift Dyslexia Teacher JM Kuster Dyslexia Resources G Row ] - (UK) The British Dyslexia Association The American Hyperlexia Association The Canadian Hyperlexia Association Hyperlexia and Language Disorders C Miller Learning disabilities in mathematics (Dyscalculia) - LD Online Dyscalculia .org Communication Issues Associated with Aging D Kergil ]- Puget Sound Univ. About the Brain and Language Earles et al. ] - Furman College (US) Speech Disorders - Healthtouch , a few chapters online from the book [ TD Kehoe Stuttering Home Page [ ] - via Mankato State Univ. The Stuttering Foundation of America Information on Stuttering SD Thiele The National Center for Stuttering - (US) The Stuttering Page at East Carolina University (US) The British Stammering Association - (UK) The Association for Research into Stammering in Childhood CAPS - Canadian Assoc. for People Who Stutter (CA)

63. The Health Library — Nervous System And Brain Aphasia Fact SheetNational Aphasia Foundation. primary progressive aphasiaNationalAphasia Foundation. Facts and ReadingsNational Aphasia Foundation. http://healthlibrary.stanford.edu/resources/internet/bodysystems/nervoussystem6.

Diseases and Disorders Use these links to jump directly to your topic of interest: Anatomy Autoimmune Nervous System Diseases Brain Diseases Brain Injury ... Transplantation Nervous System and Brain: Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 ... Page 9 Spinal Cord Injury Spinal Cord Injuries: MEDLINEplus Spinal Cord Injuries:AANS Spinal Cord Injury:NINDS Spinal Cord Injury : Emerging Concepts:NINDS Workshop (1996) ... Myelin and Spinal Cord Repair:Society for Neuroscience Spinal Cord Diseases Spinal Cord Diseases: MEDLINEplus Cauda Equina Syndrome Cauda Equina Syndrome:AANS Chiari Malformation Chiari Malformation:Lucile Packard Children' Hospital What is the Chiari Malformation?:American Syringomyelia Alliance Project Chiari Malformation:Hyman-Newman Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery Myelitis Transverse Myelitis Fact Sheet:NINDS About Transverse Myelitis:Transverse Myelitis Association Neural Tube Defects See Genetics and Birth Defects, Neural Tube Defects Spina Bifida See Genetics and Birth Defects, Spina Bifida Spinal Muscular Atrophy Spinal Muscular Atrophy:MEDLINEplus Spinal Muscular Atrophy:NINDS Understanding SMA:Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Infantile Progressive Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA1):Muscular Dystrophy Association ... Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy:GeneReviews, University of Washington Syringomelia Syringomelia:MEDLINEplus Syringomelia Fact Sheet:NINDS What is Syringomyelia?:American Syringomyelia Alliance Project

64. Cuadernos De Neurología Translate this page 11. Mesuam M. primary progressive aphasia. Ann Neurol 22 (4) 533-534, 1987. 12. 14.WeintraubS. primary progressive aphasia. Arch Neurol 47 1329-1335, 1990. http://escuela.med.puc.cl/paginas/publicaciones/Neurologia/cuadernos/1994/pub_11

AFASIA PROGRESIVA PRIMARIA Dra. Ximena Rossat Escuela de Medicina I.- CARACTERISTICAS CLINICAS 1. Edad de Comienzo. a.- Lenguaje II.- EXAMENES DE LABORATORIO. 1.- Electroencefalograma III.- CARACTERISTICAS NEUROPATOLOGICAS. DIFERENCIAS CLINICAS CON DETERIORO SENIL TIPO ALZHEIMER Sin embargo si el paciente con APP es seguido por largo tiempo, hasta los estados terminales de su enfermedad, es frecuente que se puedan presentar algunas anteraciones cognitivas y del comportamiento. BIBLIOGRAFIA. 1. Basso A,Progressive language impairment without dementia. J.of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatric 51: 1201-1207, 1988. 2. Benson F. Aphasia. Alexia and Agraphia. Churchill Livingstone 1979. 3. Damasio A. Aphasia. The New England Journal of Medicine 326: 531-539, 1992. 4. Green. Progressive Aphasia. Neurology 40: 423-429, 1990. 6. Heath , Slowly progressive aphasia without generalized dementia. Ann of Neurol 13:687- 688,1983.- 7.= Kirshner H. Progressive aphasia without dementia. Ann Neurol 22: 527-532, 1987. 8. Mandell A. Creutzfelf-Jakob disease presenting as isolated aphasia. Neurology 39:55-58,1989.

65. Brain SPECT In Progressive Aphasia CLINICAL INVESTIGATIONS. Frontotemporal Decreases in rCBF Correlatewith Degree of Dysnomia in primary progressive aphasia. Elmer http://www.snm.org/about/oldjnmabs/2000/v41n2p228.html

Publication: Media CLINICAL INVESTIGATIONS Frontotemporal Decreases in rCBF Correlate with Degree of Dysnomia in Primary Progressive Aphasia Elmer C. San Pedro, Georg Deutsch, Hong Gang Liu, and James M. Mountz Department of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is an uncommon degenerative dementia characterized by gradual impairment of language function with initial sparing of the memory domain. Using semiquantitative Tc-hexamethyl propyleneamine oxime (HMPAO) brain SPECT as a measure of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF), we investigated the relationship between reduced Tc- HMPAO uptake and the severity of dysnomia in PPA. Methods: Seven right-handed patients with PPA had their dysnomia assessed by the Boston Naming Test (BNT), a subtest of the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination. Neuroimaging studies, including Tc-HMPAO brain SPECT, CT, and MRI, were performed. Correlational analysis between reduced rCBF and BNT was performed. Results: Brain SPECT showed a reduction in Tc-HMPAO uptake involving the frontal and temporal lobes in all 7 patients. CT and MRI showed mild to moderate cerebral atrophy in 4 patients. Low scores on the BNT correlated with low frontotemporal

66. Diagnostic Medical Testing In Psychiatric Disorders - Dementia - Frontotemporal clinical diagnostic groups encompassed under the term Pick Complex and includesPick’s disease, semantic dementia, primary progressive aphasia, and frontal http://www.upcmd.com/dot/diseases/01080/disinfo_picks.html

UPCMD Home DTP Home DTP Authors-Editors Disorder information ... Controversy Search Testing in Psychiatry Dementia Mild Cognitive Impairment Synonyms-Specific Diseases DSM-IV and ICD9 Coding Frontotemporal Dementia (FTP) Definition-Classification Clinical Findings Neuropathologic Features Diagnosis Frontotemporal dementia is a primary neuropathologic "dementing diseases" along with Alzheimer disease, vascular dementia, and Lewy body dementia considered in the diagnosis of patients with dementia [ ref Frontotemporal dementia is defined by clinical and neurologic criteria defined by the "Lund and Manchester Groups" in 1994 [ ref ] and includes as a subset (~25% of all cases) the eponymic entity Pick’s disease which is characterized neuropathologically by Pick bodies, tau-immunoreactive intraneuronal inclusion bodies and Pick cells – large ballooned neurons [ ref Frontotemporal dementia includes a group of clinical diagnostic groups encompassed under the term "Pick Complex" and includes Pick’s disease, semantic dementia, primary progressive aphasia, and frontal dementia – for a complete listing, see Pick disease as defined by Pick inclusions and Pick cells is clustered in families with ~50% of cases having a familial inheritance pattern [ ref ] – for more information about genetics, see

67. A Psychology Press Journal: Aphasiology - Table Of Contents Title Case Study Phonological and Articulatory Disturbances in a Case ofprimary progressive aphasia Authors M. Helen Southwood, A. Chatterjee. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/archive/p-archive/aphvol12.html

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68. WebGuest - Open Directory : Health : Conditions And Diseases : Neurological Diso Sites Understanding primary progressive aphasia An article with a description,assistance available and where to obtain additional information. http://directory.webguest.com/index.cgi/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Neurologi

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69. Hodges & Patterson Brain. Review pc (1995) primary progressive aphasia and semantic dementia.Neurocase, 1, 3954. Sinnatamby R, Antoun NA, Freer CEL http://www.iias.or.jp/research/res_gengo/gengo98rpt/Hodges.html

IIAS Lecture Japan November 1998 "Semantic Dementia and the Progressive Aphasic Syndromes: Clinical and Neuroradiological Features" John R Hodges and Karalyn Patterson MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK Pick's disease, Progressive Aphasia and Semantic dementia Although the term semantic dementia is recent, the syndrome has been recognised for many years. In 1892 Arnold Pick reported a patient with amnestic aphasia and left temporal lobe atrophy. Many other such patients were reported in the PickÕs disease literature of the early 20th century. Patients with "loss of word meaning" were also reported from Japan under the heading of "Gogi aphasia". In 1975 Warrington reported what she termed Òselective impairment of semantic memoryÓ and proposed that the combination of transcortical aphasia and associative agnosia observed in three patients with cortical atrophy reflected a fundamental loss of semantic memory about the items which thereby affected naming, word comprehension, and object recognition. Semantic memory is the term applied to the component of long-term memory which contains the permanent representation of our knowledge about things in the world and their inter-relationship, facts and concepts as well as words and their meaning. Mesulam's 1982 paper rekindled neurological interest in the focal dementias when he reported clinical syndrome of "slowly progressive aphasia without generalised dementia" in six patients with a 5 to 10 year history of insidiously worsening aphasia in the absence of signs of more generalised cognitive failure. Since 1982 there have now been over 40 papers reporting some 100 patients who fulfil the criteria for progressive aphasia. Although the language deficits seen in such patients are heterogeneous, two broad groups can be identified: progressive fluent aphasia with features corresponding to those reported above (which we prefer to call semantic dementia) and progressive non-fluent aphasia in which there is selective breakdown in the phonological and syntactic aspects of language. The latter syndrome will not be discussed further here

70. Mental Health Foundation Homepage Primary brain tumour. Primary Health Care. Primary Health Care (2). Primary process.primary progressive aphasia (PPA). Prions. Prison inreach. Prodromal. Projection. http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/wordbank.cfm?wbletter=P

71. Re: Primary Progressive Aphasia Re primary progressive aphasia. In Reply to Re Primary ProgressiveAphasia posted by mark pellington on March 06, 19100 at 000304 http://www.caregiver.on.ca/wwwboard/messages/1642.html

Re: Primary Progressive Aphasia Follow Ups Post Followup Caregiver Network Bulletin Board FAQ Posted by Amanda on April 20, 19100 at 12:11:36: In Reply to: Re: Primary Progressive Aphasia posted by mark pellington on March 06, 19100 at 00:03:04: : : Can anyone direct me to a chat room for caregivers of those with Primary Progressive Aphasia? I am also looking for a chat room for caregivers of those wit PPA. My husband has been disbled for approx. five years now and it is getting more difficult to stay on top of his needs. Follow Ups: Re: Primary Progressive Aphasia Mel Baker Re: Primary Progressive Aphasia Mike Erwin Re: Primary Progressive Aphasia Fred Tow Re: Primary Progressive Aphasia Lisa Warren, SLP Re: Primary Progressive Aphasia Lisa Warren, SLP Re: Primary Progressive Aphasia Allen Post a Followup Name: E-Mail: Subject: Comments: : : : Can anyone direct me to a chat room for caregivers of those with Primary Progressive Aphasia? : : I am also looking for a chat room for caregivers of those wit PPA. My husband has been disbled for approx. five years now and it is getting more difficult to stay on top of his needs. Optional Link URL: Link Title: Optional Image URL: Follow Ups Post Followup Caregiver Network Bulletin Board FAQ

72. 630.html The pathology and nosology of primary progressive aphasia. Neurology, 44, 20652072. Primaryprogressive aphasia. Archives of Neurology, 47, 1329-1335. http://www.wvu.edu/~speechpa/630.html

SPEECH PATHOLOGY AND AUDIOLOGY 630 Adult Neurogenic Communication Disorders Dr. Linda Shuster, Instructor COURSE OUTLINE Week Topics Reading Course overview Neural plasticity and recovery Ch. 1,* Musso et al., 1999 Cognitive foundations of language Effects of aging on communication Harris, online, Symptoms and medical diagnosis of causes of neurogenic communication disorders Ch. 2, 3 Golper, Ch. 2, 4 The nature of aphasia Ch. 2, 20 Nature of aphasia (cont.) Ch. 2, 20 Assessing aphasia Ch. 4, 9, James, et al., online Assessment (cont.) Ch. 4, 9 Treatment of aphasia Ch. 5-32, Reyes, online Eng, online Treating aphasia (cont.) Ch. 5-32, SPRING BREAK Ch. 36 The speech motor system and neurogenic speech disorders Ch. 36 Neurogenic speech disorders (cont.) Ch. 36 The nature and treatment of cognitive-linguistic disorders in traumatic brain injury Ch. 33 Traumatic brain injury (cont.) Ch. 33 Right hemisphere impairment Ch. 34 Language in dementia Ch. 35 * All readings are from the required text unless otherwise indicated READINGS Required Textbook: Recommended Textbook: Duffy, J.R. (1995). Motor speech disorders. Baltimore: Mosby.

73. Listings Of The World Health Conditions And Diseases Listings World Health Conditions and Diseases Neurological Disorders Dementiaprimary progressive aphasia. Listings World, http://listingsworld.com/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Neurological_Disorders/D

74. JSMRM Journal Abstracts, Volume 22 Number 2 MRI and MRS Findings of primary progressive aphasia. Simplified Return toheadline. MRI and MRS Findings of primary progressive aphasia. Tetsuya http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jmrm/abstract/JMRM22-2.html

Abstracts of Vol.22 No.2 HEADLINE SENSE:Current Status;and Future Development in Particular for Applications in Abdominal Imaging Advantages of fMRI at Ultra High Magnetic Field Abdominal MR Imaging on 3T Clinical Application of MR Amniofetography ... Simplified Measurement of Free RadicalS with ESR Using Disposable Capillary Cell Method : Comparison with the Conventional Method Using Flat Cell SENSE:Current Status;and Future Development in Particular for Applications in Abdominal Imaging Return to headline Advantages of fMRI at Ultra High Magnetic Field Return to headline Abdominal MR Imaging on 3T Tetsuji TSUKAMOTO MR Laboratory, Advanced Technology Center, GE Yokogawa Medical Systems 4-7-127 Asahigaoka, Hino-shi, Tokyo 191-8503 The main advantage of using 3T MR for abdominal imaging is the higher signal to noise ratio that can be achieved as compared to conventional clinical scanners. This advantage can be used for high spatial resolution imaging and fast imaging, such as high band width acquisitions and parallel imaging, while maintaining reasonable signal to noise ratio of the images. Since abdominal imaging on 3T has only recently become available, its clinical applications are still in the early stages. Therefore, both the optimization of miscellaneous pulse sequences and imaging protocols will need to be focused on in clinical research and case studies. High field MR technology is the key to unveiling more functional and molecular level information in vivo. This is not attainable on 1.5T or lower field MRI systems.

75. 2002 American Journal Of Alzheimer's Disease And Other Dementias Abstracts primary progressive aphasia A review of the neurobiology of a common presentationof Pick complex Andrew Kertesz, MD, FRCPC; David G. Munoz, MD, FRCPC January http://www.alzheimersjournal.com/pn02024.html

American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias , Volume 17, Numbers 1-6 January/February 2002, Volume 17, Number 1 Editorial The forgotten stepchild Christopher V. Rowland, Jr., MD January/February 2002; page 5 Newsbriefs January/February 2002; pages 6-9 Shannon Rogan, BS; Carol F. Lippa, MD January/February 2002; pages 11-17 Abstract Slowly progressive aphasia with striatal involvement Nages Nagaratnam, FRACP; Gary Cheuk, FRACP; Kujan Nagaratnam, FRACP January/February 2002; pages 18-22 Abstract We have described four patients with slowly progressive aphasia with striatal involvement occurring at different stages in the course of the illness. There were two males and two females, and their ages ranged from 68 to 76 (mean: 72) years. The extrapyramidal signs included tremors, bradykinesia, rigidity, and focal dystonia, and one had weakness resembling stroke. There is a heterogeniety among patients with slowly progressive aphasia and the clinical features correspond to the functional anatomy of the areas involved rather than to the pathology. Key words: aphasia, bradykinesia, dementia, dystonia, extrapyramidal signs, rigidity, striatal involvement, tremors

76. The Contact A Family Directory - Index P see Dystonia Primary Gout see Purine Pyrimidine Metabolic Diseases PrimaryImmunodeficiencies primary progressive aphasia see Frontotemporal Dementia http://www.cafamily.org.uk/Idx/p.html

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77. Diseases/Treatments In The Department Of Neurology, Mayo Clinic In Rochester, Mi Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). Primary lateral sclerosis.primary progressive aphasia (PPA). Prion disease. Progressive bulbar palsy. http://www.mayoclinic.org/neurology-rst/diseases.html

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78. Psicología Conductual: Volume 4 Number 3 Translate this page A review of primary progressive aphasia (Mesulam syndrome) (1982-1996). RaúlEspert, José Francisco Navarro, Joan Deus, Marién Gadea y Javier Chirivella. http://www.apicsa.com/revista/vol4n3in.html

Elija / Choose... vol1; num 1 (esp) vol1; num2 (esp) vol1; num3 (esp) vol2; num1 (esp) vol2; num2 (esp) vol2; num3 (esp) vol3; num1 (esp) vol3; num2 (esp) vol3; num3 (esp) vol4; num1 (esp) vol4; num2 (esp) vol4; num3 (esp) vol5; num1 (esp) vol5; num2 (esp) vol5; num3 (esp) Towards a psychobiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder Obsessive-compulsive disorder is an uncommon psychopathological condition, characterized by a set of disturbing symptoms that usually disrupts the ongoing behaviour. A growing body of evidence from genetic, brain imaging techniques and psychopharmacological studies links this syndrome to frontal lobe and basal ganglia dysfunction and to the serotonin system. In this article we review the most recent studies exploring the biological, neuropsychological and clinical aspects of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Frontal lobes functioning in chidhood M. Angels Jurado y Katia Verger Memory and basal ganglia: a review Presymptomatic detection of the neurophsychological deficit in Huntington disease: controversies Cerebral asymmetry: right hemisphere and language The dominance of left hemisphere for language is a well-estabished fact. This superiority is not absolute. The possible contribution of the right hemisphere to verbal processing has been studied from different approaches. in this article we present a review of the literature, with special attention to a) the effects of right hemisphere damage on language, b) studies with commissurotomized patients and c) studies with neurologically normal subjects. Taken as a whole, the data support the idea that language processing is not an exclusive competence of left hemisphere. The integrity of the right hemisphere is necessary for lexico-semantic processing and for an adequate relation language-context. The definition of the actual contribution of the right hemisphere is a work that remains to be doner.

79. Comunicaciones Introduction Primary progressive dysphasia (or primary progressive aphasia) isan heterogeneous clinical syndrome, both respect to neuropsychological and http://www.uninet.edu/union99/congress/libs/dem/d16.html

COMMUNICATION TOPIC: DEMENTIA Authors: *Department of Neurology **Service of Nuclear Medicine ***Department of Radiology Universitary clinic of Navarra. Pamplona. Spain. E-Mail: aoliverosc@meditex.es Abstract Introduction: Primary progressive dysphasia (or primary progressive aphasia) is an heterogeneous clinical syndrome, both respect to neuropsychological and clinical, and neuropathological data. Patients may present various types of aphasia and, if the course of the disease is long enough, most patient eventually progress to any type dementia. Sometimes the neuropsychological pattern showed by the dysphasia may lead to suspect the kind of dementia the patient is going to develop. Patients/Method: We present a 59 years old woman, right handed, who had previously presented gastroenterologic symptoms and a mayor depressive syndrome, treated successfully. On examination she showed a progressive disease, started 4 years before with language problems, being mainly incapable to denominate objects and people, and having lost a fluid speech, with paraphasias, syntactic rounds; and difficulty remembering names. Afterwards she started to show distraibility and severe alterations trying to remember, plus a progressive worsening of speech and language. After she started to exhibit behavioural problems, difficulties in understanding of language and dyslexia with dysgraphia, and complete temporo-spatial disorientation. She manifested neither alucinations nor gait problems. Results: The first neuropsychological study showed fundamentally a non-fluent progressive dysphasia. In the last study we performed we found a global dementia, with a pattern of deficits very similar to the typical findings of Alzheimerís Disease. CT Scan and MRI confirmed the existence of diffuse cortical atrophy, more intense in perirrolandic regions. 18FDG PET showed right posterior temporo-parietal hypometabolism and more profound left fronto-temporo-parietal hypometabolism.

80. Health Care Information Resources Aphasia Links Aphasia Global Aphasia Q A from the Stroke Information Directory; Aphasia- primary progressive aphasia and Related Disorders from the Northwestern http://www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/aphasia.html

The address of this page is: http://hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/aphasia.html Aphasia Links For more information, see: Alzheimer's Disease , also in the Illness section of this resource. For more information, see: Cerebrovascular Accident , also in the Illness section of this resource. For more information, see: Dementia , also in the Illness section of this resource. For more information, see: Speech disorders , also in the Illness section of this resource. For more information, see: Speech therapists , in the section of this resource. For more information, see: Speech therapy , also in the Illness section of this resource. Aphasia - Aphasia Hope Foundation increasing awareness of the problem of aphasia in the U.S. Aphasia - National Aphasia Association promoting public education, research, rehabilitation and support in the U.S. Aphasia - Aphasia Institute providing programmes at the Pat Arato Aphasia Centre in Toronto, ON Aphasia - from the Stroke Information Directory Aphasia - Primary Progressive Aphasia and Related Disorders from the Northwestern Alzheimer's Disease Center Aphasia - NINDS Aphasia Information Page a basic FAQ from the U.S. NINDS

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