Behavioural Neurology (Jan 2013)

Change of Accent as an Atypical Onset of non Fluent Primary Progressive Aphasia

  • Susy Paolini,
  • Lucia Paciaroni,
  • Antonio Manca,
  • Roberto Rossi,
  • Daniela Fornarelli,
  • Stefano F. Cappa,
  • Angela M. Abbatecola,
  • Osvaldo Scarpino

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3233/BEN-120299
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 2
pp. 221 – 227

Abstract

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Language disorders can be the first symptom of many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and primary progressive aphasia (PPA). The main variants of PPA are: the non-fluent/agrammatic variant, the semantic variant and the logopenic variant.