Presentation of a clinical case of the logopenic form of the syndrome of primary progressive aphasia in the onset of Alzheimer’s disease

Abstract

A description of a clinical case of the logopenic form of the syndrome of primary progressive aphasia in the onset of Alzheimer’s disease is presented. The disease manifested itself in the form of speech and writing disorders, a sharp disorder in labor skills with the preservation of self-service and orientation, affective fluctuations, in connection with which it was supposed to diagnose cognitive functions, psychopathological changes and instrumental research. Differential diagnostics with mental spectrum diseases, various neurodegenerative diseases, vascular lesions of the brain were carried out. However, the nature, as well as the existing features of cognitive impairment and speech impairment of the manifestation of the disease, suggested a logopenic warrant of the PPA syndrome, and the presence of a general cognitive decline and disease progression in a short time was Alzheimer’s disease with an atypical onset.

Keywords

• dementia
• primary progressive aphasia
• logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia
• pseudodementia
• melancholic dementia
• cognitive impairment
• alzheimer's disease
• depression
• aphasia