Extractions: Home About Mayo Clinic Jobs Contact Us Mayo Clinic Locations: Arizona Florida Minnesota Mayo Clinic ... Medical Services Primary Progressive Aphasia Primary Progressive Aphasia Overview Diagnosis Treatment Options Appointments ... Medical Services (Synonyms: Semantic aphasia, semantic dementia, progressive nonfluent aphasia, chronic progressive aphasia) Mayo Clinic offers a collaborative approach that involves a comprehensive evaluation of the patient's disease and associated symptoms by physicians who have extensive experience in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with primary progressive aphasia. These specialists include neurologists, speech pathologists, neuropsychologists, neuroradiologists, psychiatrists, sleep medicine specialists and physical medicine specialists. At Mayo Clinic, treatment is tailored to each patient and takes into account the patient's and family's needs while providing state-of-the-art care and access to new developments and appropriate clinical trials. Follow-up care is available at Mayo Clinic and efforts are made to coordinate care with the patient's primary or local physicians.
Symptoms Of Primary Progressive Aphasia Early symptoms of primary progressive aphasia include difficulties recalling thenames of people and objects, difficulties expressing one s thoughts orally, http://www.mayoclinic.org/primary-progressive-aphasia/symptoms.html
Extractions: Home About Mayo Clinic Jobs Contact Us Mayo Clinic Locations: Arizona Florida Minnesota Mayo Clinic ... Medical Services Primary Progressive Aphasia Primary Progressive Aphasia Overview Diagnosis Symptoms Treatment Options ... Medical Services Early symptoms of primary progressive aphasia include difficulties recalling the names of people and objects, difficulties expressing one's thoughts orally, and sometimes difficulties understanding others. Usually, other areas of thinking such as memory for recent events, attention/concentration, judgment and reasoning abilities, and visuospatial abilities are relatively normal. Some patients tend to say or nod "yes" for "no" and vice versa. Home About Mayo Clinic Contact Mayo About This Site ... Search E-mail this Page
References: Primary Progressive Aphasia & AAC Principled syllabic dissolution in a primary progressive aphasia case. Profiles of Language Impairment in primary progressive aphasia. http://aac.unl.edu/reference/PPA_AAC.html
Extractions: from a chapter to appear (July of 2000) in the following volume: Augmentative Communication for Adults with Neurologic and Neuromuscular Disabilities Edited by: David R. Beukelman, Kathryn Yorkston, and Joe Reichle Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Inc. Aphasiology,11(12) Comptes Rendus des Seances de laSociete de Biologie (Paris), 49 Aphasiology Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 77 Annals of Neurology Augmentative communication in the medical setting (pp. 245-338). Tucson, AZ: Communication Skill Builders. Neurology Neurology Neurology Aphasiology Journal of the InternationalNeuropsychological Society Archives of Neurolology Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry Archives of Neurology, Journal ofCommunication Disorders Light, J. C. (1988). Interaction involving individuals using augmentative and alternative communication systems: State of the art and future directions. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 4, Building communicative competence with individuals who use augmentative and alternative communication. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing.
AAC-Medicare Resources Books Dealing with primary progressive aphasia and AAC. Beukelman, D., Yorkston,K., Reichle, J. (Eds.).(2000).Augmentative and alternative communication http://aac.unl.edu/AACMedicare.html
Extractions: AAC-Medicare WWW site For information about Medicare Policy, Procedures, Sample Assessment Reports, and Frequently Asked Questions Augmentative and alternative communication: Management of severe communication disorders in children and adults (Second Edition). Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co. Augmentative and alternative communication for adults with acquired neurologic disorders. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co. Speaking up and spelling out: Personal essays on augmentative and alternative communication. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co. Management of speech and swallowing disorders in degenerative disease. Austin, TX: Pro-ed. PALS American ALS Society Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Neurological diseases Non-Progressive Aphasia and Apraxia For information about Medicare Policy, Procedures, Sample Assessment Reports, and Frequently Asked Questions
Wordbank On The Mental Health Foundation Website primary progressive aphasia (PPA). spacer. A form of dementia that can occur inindividuals under the age of 65, sometimes as early as in their 40âs. http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/wordbank.cfm?wordid=669&wbletter=P
Primary Progressive Aphasia - OhioHealth primary progressive aphasia is a rare neurological syndrome in which languagecapabilities become slowly and progressively impaired. http://www.ohiohealth.com/healthreference/reference/030E79E6-02C2-403A-9C734E6DA
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Memory And Aging Center: Primary Progressive Aphasia primary progressive aphasia Semantic Dementia Huntington s Disease For more information, go to our Progressive Supranuclear Palsy section of our http://memory.ucsf.edu/Education/Disease/psp.html
Extractions: Steele, Richardson, and Olszewski first described this disease as a distinct clinicopathologic entity in 1964, and established the triad of clinical features still used for diagnosis: Although these three features are considered to be the hallmarks of PSP, patients with this disorder also experience other symptoms common to degenerative diseases of the brain, including difficulties with movement, changes in behavior and difficulty with speech and swallowing. Demographics PSP occurs primarily in middle-aged adults and the elderly, with slightly more males being affected than females. In the US, approximately 1.39 in every 100,000 individuals is estimated to have PSP, but because the disorder is difficult to diagnose, this is thought to be a considerably underestimated.
Entrez PubMed Cognition and anatomy in three variants of primary progressive aphasia. GornoTempiniML, Dronkers NF, Rankin KP, Ogar JM, Phengrasamy L, Rosen HJ, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1
NCNCD Site: TELEROUNDS 33 primary progressive aphasia . Presenter Andrew Kertesz, MD, FRCPC. Primaryprogressive aphasia (PPA) is a relatively common syndrome of degenerative http://cnet.shs.arizona.edu/telerounds/past/33.html
Extractions: Quick Links CenterNet Site Survey InfoNet PhotoMural ... TELEROUNDS "Primary Progressive Aphasia" Presenter: Andrew Kertesz, M.D., FRCPC Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a relatively common syndrome of degenerative dementia. It is defined as a slowly progressive language disturbance that is relatively isolated from other cognitive deficits for at least two years. In the end-stage, mutism often develops, frontal behavioral changes, extra-pyramidal deficits, and occasionally amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, may be superimposed. The pathology is often Pick's disease or related non-Alzheimer's pathology described as "Pick complex." Most PPAs begin with anomia but eventually become nonfluent. Occasionally a fluent type of aphasia develops with "semantic dementia." Related Sections Video Tape Order Form TELEROUNDS Listserv
Baylor Neurology Case Of The Month These findings are suggestive of a primary progressive aphasia that has begun to primary progressive aphasia longitudinal course, neuropsychological http://www.bcm.edu/neurology/challeng/pat35/summary.html
Extractions: Diagnosis: Progressive Non-fluent Aphasia (formerly Primary Progressive Aphasia) This patient's condition began with dysnomia and progressed to a severe expressive language disorder over the course of approximately five years. His current status also reflects early deficits in frontal lobe executive functioning (maintenance of task set and planning and execution of complex drawings). There is relative preservation of visuospatial skills. The deficits in memory seen affect both verbal and non-verbal domains. However, the patient does not show global memory impairment in terms of his orientation to time. There is relative preservation of personality and no history of socially inappropriate behavior, apathy, restricted affect, or amimia. These findings are suggestive of a primary progressive aphasia that has begun to involve the frontal lobes. A familial form of frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism (FTDP-17) also has been identified. Clinical features include personality changes, hyperorality, nonfluent aphasia, bradykinesia, rigidity, and impairment of executive functions. The inheritance is autosomal dominant with a pathological locus mapped to a 2 cM interval on 17q21-22. The gene for the microtubule-associated protein tau is located in this region, and tau-positive neuronal inclusions have been demonstrated in many of these family members. More than 10 exonic and intronic mutations in the tau gene have been identified in patients with familial FTDP-17. Missense mutations including P301L, V337M, and R406W have been shown to disrupt cytoskeletal networks of microtubules and/or result in an accelerated aggregation of tau into filaments.
Extractions: PDF - Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or other PDF viewer. The purpose of this longitudinal study was to describe the evolving treatment regimen provided to a woman with a 4 year history of non-fluent primary progressive aphasia (PPA). Over her 2.5 years of treatment, three different therapy approaches were used to adapt to her changing communicative abilities and needs: (i) a traditional stimulation-facilitation approach, (ii) the 'Back-to-the-drawing board' programme, and (iii) a functional communication approach including provision of an augmentative communication device. Improvement was found following each treatment approach indicating that PPA patients can continue to benefit from long-term speech-language pathology services. EPrint Type: Journal (Paginated) Keywords: GENERALIZED DEMENTIA; LANGUAGE; COMMUNICATION; DISEASE
Extractions: PDF - Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or other PDF viewer. Language samples collected yearly for up to 11 years post-onset of symptoms from four subjects presenting with non-fluent primary progressive aphasia (PPA) were analyzed and compared with samples collected from both non-brain-damaged subjects and those with agrammatic Broca's aphasia resulting from a single left-hemisphere stroke. Extensive analysis of lexical and morphosyntactic variables in these samples revealed two patterns of expressive language decline in the PPA subjects - one resembling that seen in our agrammatic aphasic subjects - i.e. impaired production of closed-class elements and loss of sentential structures governed by these elements-and the other characterized by advancing word-retrieval difficulties. These data are relevant for patient-management purposes and, in addition, they provide information relevant to language representation and organization. EPrint Type: Journal (Paginated) Keywords: GENERALIZED DEMENTIA; AGRAMMATIC PRODUCTION
Medical Expert Q. My 79year-old mother was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia threeyears ago. She has been taking Aricept since then. http://www.medinfosource.com/expert/exp3013100d.html
Extractions: Select One Contact CME? Order? Register? Place an Ad? Print Pages? More... AIDS/HIV Allergy Alternative Med. Alzheimer's Arthritis Asthma Blood Disorders Cancer Childhood Illness Chronic Fatigue Common Cold Dementia Dermatology Diabetes Ear/Nose/Throat Exercise Gastrointestinal Geriatrics Headache Heart Disease Hepatitis High Cholest. Medications Men's Health Migraine Nervous Syst. Neurology Nutrition Opthamology Orthopedics Osteoporosis Pediatrics Pregnancy Skin Disorders Sleep Disorders Stroke/TIA Women's Health January 2000 Q. My 79-year-old mother was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia three years ago. She has been taking Aricept since then. We have seen great degeneration in her ability to reason, comprehend and find a word that seems to be on the tip of her tongue. Is there any other help for her? How much benefit is Aricept for these symptoms? A. Aphasia is a difficulty with speech, either hearing the spoken word (receptive aphasia) or speaking itself. Aphasia can have many causes, from severe mental retardation, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, or (as in your mother's case) there is sometimes no identifiable cause, and the person is diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia. The difficulty is making a definite diagnosis as to the type of aphasia a person has. Since Alzheimer's disease is a frequent cause of aphasia, and since Aricept is frequently helpful in patients with Alzheimer's disease, many patients with primary progressive aphasia will be given Aricept as a trial. So, in other words, the Aricept is used primarily with the hope that it is going to work, rather than with the knowledge that it is effective in primary progressive aphasia.
Extractions: Vol. 50 No. 2, February 1993 Featured Link E-mail Alerts ARTICLE Article Options Send to a Friend Readers Reply Submit a reply Similar articles in this journal Literature Track Add to File Drawer Download to Citation Manager PubMed citation Articles in PubMed by Karbe H Polk M Articles that cite this article Contact me when this article is cited H. Karbe, A. Kertesz and M. Polk Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario, St Joseph's Hospital, London, Canada. OBJECTIVEThe profile of language impairment in patients with primary progressive aphasia in comparison with the language impairment in patients with Alzheimer's disease and after stroke. DESIGNThe Western Aphasia Battery and the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale evaluated the language and cognitive impairment. Follow-up studies were done 1 to 5 years after the
Extractions: Vol. 47 No. 12, December 1990 Featured Link E-mail Alerts ARTICLE Article Options Send to a Friend Readers Reply Submit a reply Similar articles in this journal Literature Track Add to File Drawer Download to Citation Manager PubMed citation Articles in PubMed by Weintraub S Mesulam MM Articles that cite this article Contact me when this article is cited S. Weintraub, N. P. Rubin and M. M. Mesulam Division of Behavioral Neuroscience and Behavioral Neurology, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Mass 02215. Four patients with the clinical syndrome of primary progressive aphasia and a nonfluent aphasia profile were followed up over a period of 3 to 5 years. Extensive neuropsychological data for three patients revealed a progressive, quantitative decline of language with relative stability of
Extractions: For Researchers For Librarians Authors: Cynthia Cress ; Julia King Source: , Volume 15, Number 4, December 1999, pp. 248-259(12) Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd View Table of Contents full text options Free trial available! Abstract: This paper describes multimodality augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies developed for two people with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) without dementia. One case focused primarily on an initial assessment while the other case emphasized intervention. AAC system development included communication needs analyses, communication board and book development, and gesture modeling. Intervention focused on providing contextual cues, teaching visually based AAC strategies, and facilitator training. Both people with PPA successfully learned AAC strategies to augment the strategies they generated themselves to improve their functional communication. The authors suggest specific features of AAC that may be useful for people with PPA. Keywords: adult aphasia assessment augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) ... progressive impairment Document Type:
Primary Progressive Aphasia A Case Report primary progressive aphasia has been clinically defined as progressive languagedeficit leading to the dissolution of almost all language functions with http://med.ege.edu.tr/norolbil/2000/2000_1_10.htm