Why are patients with progressive nonfluent aphasia nonfluent?

Neurology

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 588-594

  Gunawardena, D ^a   Ash, S ^a   McMillan, C ^a   Avants, B ^b   Gee, J ^b   Grossman, M ^a  

^a Departments of Neurology and Radiology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION DISORDERS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA;

EID: 77955885676     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181ed9c7d     Document Type: Article

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