Primary progressive aphasia and Alzheimer's disease: Brief history, recent evidence

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 709-714

  Kirshner, Howard S ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease (AD); Aphasia; Frontotemporal dementia (FTD); Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD); Logopenic progressive aphasia (LPA); Primary progressive aphasia (PPA); Progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA); Semantic dementia (SD)

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; DNA; FLORBETAPIR F 18; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; PROGRANULIN; TAU PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS; LOGOPENIC PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APHASIA; APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; ATROPHY; BRAIN; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; NEUROIMAGING; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA;

EID: 84870562763     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: 15346293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-012-0307-2     Document Type: Article

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