Primary Progressive Aphasia-HELP!!! primary progressive aphasiaHELP!!! Email Address WM3DGIBSON@AOL.COM Mymother was recently diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia. http://neuro-www.mgh.harvard.edu/forum_2/GeneralNeurologyF/12.28.9911.13PMPrimar
Extractions: This Web Forum is not moderated in any sense. Anyone on the Internet can post articles or reply to previously posted articles, and they may do so anonymously. Therefore, the opinions and statements made in all articles and replies do not represent the official opinions of MGH and MGH Neurology. Neither is MGH or MGH Neurology responsible for the content of any articles or replies. No messages are screened for content. This article submitted by M Gibson on 12/28/99. My mother has been through MRIs, CAT scans, blood tests, memory tests, etc. She has been to the hospital in Iowa City twice and yet all we get is that she has a speech deficit and she needs to learn sign language. The only test that has come back with ANY abnormality is a SPECT scan that has been run two times and shows a lack of nurishment to the left side of her brain. In May of 1996, an individual by the name of Ann Allan typed and article on Primary Progressive Aphasia about her mother. When my sister happened upon this article, it seemed almost erie as it mirrored my mother's condition. Ann, if you are out there and you read this, please contact me! I lost my father in June of 1996 to cancer and my sister and I feel that in a sense, if we don't find something to reverse mom's condition that we have already lost the "MOM" that we know.
Primary Progressive Aphasia No messages are screened for content. primary progressive aphasia. Shehas just been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia. http://neuro-www.mgh.harvard.edu/forum_2/HuntingtonsDiseaseF/6.21.991.46AMPrimar
Extractions: This Web Forum is not moderated in any sense. Anyone on the Internet can post articles or reply to previously posted articles, and they may do so anonymously. Therefore, the opinions and statements made in all articles and replies do not represent the official opinions of MGH and MGH Neurology. Neither is MGH or MGH Neurology responsible for the content of any articles or replies. No messages are screened for content. This article submitted by Doug on 6/21/99. (I had posted this in speech disorders forum a week ago, and had no response) Howdy! Hey, wondered if you folks could help my mother with some information. She has just been diagnosed with Primary Progressive Aphasia. Her words are mixed up, and she can't write like she used to, and this has been going on for about a year now. She was an English/Drama teacher for years, so it is very frustrating for her not to be able to be accurate with her spoken and written English. She just started taking Aricept but hasn't noticed any improvements yet. Also, her mother, my grandmother, had Huntingtons Chorea, and died of the complications of that disease. I can't help but think that there may be some conection between the two. My mother will be 65 in July, my grandmother was 59 when diagnosed with Huntingtons, and 71 when she died. Any advice and or information would be tremendously appreciated. My mother is on Web TV, and once I get more information, I will try to get her to post here herself.
Extractions: Thompson, C.K. (2001) Treatment of underlying forms: A linguistic specific approach for sentence production deficits in agrammatic aphasia. In R. Chapey (ed.) Language intervention strategies in adult aphasia (4th edition), Baltimore Lippincott noncanonical sentence comprehension and production in agrammatic aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 43 Click for Abstract Thompson, C. K., Tait M.E. wh -questions. Brain and Language, 67 Click for Abstract Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 42 Click for Abstract Wh -movement structures in agrammatic aphasia: Optimal order for promoting generalization. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 4 Click for Abstract Thompson, C.K., Shapiro, L.P., Ballard, K., Jacobs, B., Schneider
Extractions: Studies also are underway using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine brain sites involved in aspects of sentence processing. This work is supported by the McDonnell-Pew Foundation Program in Cognitive Neuroscience. Results to date have indicated that, in non-brain-damaged subjects, complex sentence processing involves frontal lobe areas (i.e., pars opercularis and surrounding areas), while simple sentence processing may be accomplished without engaging, to the same extent, these anterior brain sites. Studies examining recovery of language processing in aphasia using fMRI are also planned. Dr. Thompson's Aphasia and Neurolinguistics Research Laboratory:
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Alzheimer PDG. PD. PiD. Prion. PSP. PEP. SSP. ToD. primary progressive aphasia (PPA). PPA isa langagebased dementia characterized by a progressive impairment of verbal skills. http://www.lille.inserm.fr/u422/PPA.html
Extractions: Alzheimer Brain dis eases Research ... GD Bri C BD DS GSS F TD FTDP-17 H ... F H-S d IBM L BD MSA NPiD c PDG P D PiD P rion P SP PEP SSP ToD Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) PPA is a langage-based dementia characterized by a progressive impairment of verbal skills. Core: impaired fluency, agrammatism, impaired comprehension of word scanning, naming deficits. PPA is divided into non fluent and fluent (mesulam et al) PPA belongs to the "Pick spectrum" of tauopathies. Accueil Liens vers sites apparentés Lexique
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School Of Communication At Northwestern University Manuscript submitted for publication. Click for Abstract. primary progressive aphasiaThompson, CK, Ballard, KJ, Tait, ME, Weintraub, S., Mesulam, M. (1997). http://www.northwestern.edu/csd/research/speech/aphasia/publications.html
Cynthia Thompson in work examining the decline of lexical and syntactic aspects of language in individualswith dementia specifically primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a http://www.northwestern.edu/nuin/faculty/Thompson_C/
Extractions: E-mail ckthom@northwestern.edu The neurobiology of recovery of language in aphasia also is being addressed using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). FMRI studies of lexical and syntactic processing are undertaken prior to and following recovery of specific linguistic processes in aphasic subjects. Areas of significant activation derived in pre-treatment scans are compared to those following treatment. The neural correlates of lexical and syntactic processing in normal subjects also are examined in the Aphasia and Neurolinguistic Research Lab. This work is supported by the McDonnell-Pew Foundation Program for Neuroscience. Dr. Thompson also is engaged in work examining the decline of lexical and syntactic aspects of language in individuals with dementia specifically Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA), a progressive language deficit of unknown etiology. RECENT ABSTRACTS Figure 1. SPM image (lateral) showing areas of significant activation during complex object cleft as compared to subject cleft sentence processing. Blue = areas of significant activation under object cleft sentence condition; red = areas of significant activation under subject cleft conditions; green = areas of significant activation under both sentence conditions.
Extractions: Journal of Neurological Sciences (Turkish) Table of Contents NOROL BIL D 17: 1 , 2000 http://www.med.ege.edu.tr/norolbil/2000/NBD08300.html Case Report PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA* Gülden AKDAL Beril DÖNMEZ Raif ÇAKMUR Ahmet GENÇ Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey ABSTRACT Primary progressive aphasia has been clinically defined as progressive language deficit leading to the dissolution of almost all language functions with relative preservation of other cognitive functions. This syndrome was first recognized by Mesulam in 1982. We report a 72-year-old male patient whose motor aphasia started at the age of 70 years. Magnetic resonance imaging showed left frontotemporal atrophy and single photon emission tomography showed hypoperfusion bilatheral frontal and pariototemporal lobes, more marked in the left. The clinical symptoms and the neuroimaging findings fit the diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia. But neuropathological investigations should be made for differential diagnosis. Key-words: Primary progressive aphasia *33. Ulusal Nöroloji Kongresinde sunulmuþtur.
Pick's Disease Fact Sheet different names which are explained below Frontotemporal lobar degeneration,frontotemporal dementia, semantic dementia and primary progressive aphasia. http://www.angelfire.com/ia/dougkeck/picksinfo.html
Extractions: Many doctors now prefer to reserve the name "Pick's" for just one of the types of changes in the brain tissue (histology) that may be seen with the disease. You may come across several different names which are explained below: Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, frontotemporal dementia, semantic dementia and primary progressive aphasia. Many doctors now prefer this name for the disease. Patients who would have previously been told they had Pick's Disease may now be told they have frontotemporal lobar degeneration. The name refers to the parts of the brain that are affected: the frontal and temporal lobes (at the front and side of the brain respectively). Frontotemporal lobar degeneration can present with three different patterns of symptoms: frontotemporal dementia, semantic dementia or primary progressive aphasia. In frontotemporal dementia the frontal lobes (controlling behaviour, organisation and planning) are affected first, whilst in semantic dementia it is the temporal lobes (controlling language) that are affected first. In primary progressive aphasia, the disease starts in an area at the back of the frontal lobes and front of the temporal lobes.
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Baylor Neurology Case Of The Month Patient 35. Summary and Discussion George M. Ringholz, MD, Ph.D. DiagnosisProgressive Nonfluent Aphasia (formerly primary progressive aphasia) http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/neurol/challeng/pat35/summary.html
Extractions: Diagnosis: Progressive Non-fluent Aphasia (formerly Primary Progressive Aphasia) This patient's condition began with dysnomia and progressed to a severe expressive language disorder over the course of approximately five years. His current status also reflects early deficits in frontal lobe executive functioning (maintenance of task set and planning and execution of complex drawings). There is relative preservation of visuospatial skills. The deficits in memory seen affect both verbal and non-verbal domains. However, the patient does not show global memory impairment in terms of his orientation to time. There is relative preservation of personality and no history of socially inappropriate behavior, apathy, restricted affect, or amimia. These findings are suggestive of a primary progressive aphasia that has begun to involve the frontal lobes. A familial form of frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism (FTDP-17) also has been identified. Clinical features include personality changes, hyperorality, nonfluent aphasia, bradykinesia, rigidity, and impairment of executive functions. The inheritance is autosomal dominant with a pathological locus mapped to a 2 cM interval on 17q21-22. The gene for the microtubule-associated protein tau is located in this region, and tau-positive neuronal inclusions have been demonstrated in many of these family members. More than 10 exonic and intronic mutations in the tau gene have been identified in patients with familial FTDP-17. Missense mutations including P301L, V337M, and R406W have been shown to disrupt cytoskeletal networks of microtubules and/or result in an accelerated aggregation of tau into filaments.
Patient 35 Selftest associated protein (tau) D. alphasynuclein E. Presenilin-1 4. Which clinical scenariois most consistent with a diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia? http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/neurol/challeng/pat35/selftest.html
Extractions: 4. Which clinical scenario is most consistent with a diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia? A. Early mutism, early amnesia, and late behavioral changes B. Early loss of social skills followed by anomia and apraxia C. Memory loss followed by rapid onset of aphasia D. Progressive impairment of expressive language, with mutism and behavioral changes as late features
Dr Karen Croot Neurology, 56, 944950. Croot, K. (2000) primary progressive aphasia A tutorial.Acquiring Knowledge in Speech, Language and Hearing, 2, 90-92. http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/staff/karenc/
Prof. J.B. Orange primary progressive aphasia The future of neurolinguistic and biologic characterization. Pragmaticsin frontal lobe dementia and primary progressive aphasia. http://www.uwo.ca/fhs/csd/jborange_srp.html
TEMPLATE Kertesz, A., and JB Orange. 2000. primary progressive aphasia The Future of Neurolinguisticand Biologic Characterization. Brain and Language 71 116119. http://www.uwo.ca/western/publications/199900/health/dcd.html
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Bibliografia 5.Karbe H, Kertesz A, Polk M. Profiles of language impairment in primary progressiveaphasia. The pathology and nosology of primary progressive aphasia. http://www.neuropsy.it/articoli/dir05/06.html
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