White Matter Disruption and Connected Speech in Non-Fluent and Semantic Variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia

White Matter Disruption and Connected Speech in Non-Fluent and Semantic Variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia

Differential patterns of white matter disruption have recently been reported in the non-fluent (nfvPPA) and semantic (svPPA) variants of primary progressive aphasia (PPA). No single measure is sufficient to distinguish between the PPA variants, but connected speech allows for the quantification of m...

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Main Authors: Karine Marcotte, Naida L. Graham, Kathleen C. Fraser, Jed A. Meltzer, David F. Tang-Wai, Tiffany W. Chow, Morris Freedman, Carol Leonard, Sandra E. Black, Elizabeth Rochon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2017-03-01
Series:Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra
Subjects:
Non-fluent variant
Diffusion tensor imaging
Primary progressive aphasia
Connected speech
Semantic variant

Online Access:http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/456710

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