Treatment of Primary Progressive Aphasia

Current Treatment Options in Neurology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Tippett, Donna C ^a   Hillis, Argye E ^a,b   Tsapkini, Kyrana ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apraxia of speech (AOS); Dementia; Logogpenic variant PPA; Neurodegeneration; Neuromodulation; Non fluent agrammatic PPA; Primary progressive aphasia (PPA); Semantic variant PPA; Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; REVIEW; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84931266424     PISSN: 10928480     EISSN: 15343138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11940-015-0362-5     Document Type: Review

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