The time course of neurolinguistic and neuropsychological symptoms in three cases of logopenic primary progressive aphasia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1708-1718

  Etcheverry, Louise ^a,b,c,d   Seidel, Barbara ^a,b,c,d   Grande, Marion ^b,d   Schulte, Stephanie ^a,d   Pieperhoff, Peter ^a,d   Südmeyer, Martin ^e   Minnerop, Martina ^a,d   Binkofski, Ferdinand ^b   Huber, Walter ^b   Grodzinsky, Yosef ^f   Amunts, Katrin ^a,c,d   Heim, Stefan ^a,b,c,d  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d JARA TRANSLATIONAL BRAIN MEDICINE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Apraxia; Atrophy; Attention; Cognition; Fronto temporal degeneration; PPA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; SEMANTICS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGED; APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPREHENSION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH DISORDERS; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84861223571     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.03.028     Document Type: Article

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