Progressive language impairments: Definitions, diagnoses, and prognoses

Aphasiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 302-326

  Croot, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Frontotemporal dementia; Primary progressive aphasia; Prognosis; Semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APHASIA; APRAXIA; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHROMOSOME 17; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PROGNOSIS; PROGRESSIVE LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT; PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST; SURVIVAL TIME; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 60149108279     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687030801942981     Document Type: Review

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