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Logopenic progressive aphasia (LPA) is a variant of primary progressive aphasia. [1] It is defined clinically by impairments in naming and sentence repetition. [ 2 ] It is similar to conduction aphasia and is associated with atrophy to the left posterior temporal cortex and inferior parietal lobule .
In neuropathy, primary progressive aphasia (PPA) [1] is a type of neurological syndrome in which language capabilities slowly and progressively become impaired. As with other types of aphasia , the symptoms that accompany PPA depend on what parts of the brain 's left hemisphere are significantly damaged .
Hesitant, effortful speech; Apraxia of speech; Stutter (including return of a childhood stutter) Anomic aphasia (word retrieval failures) Phonemic paraphasia (sound errors in speech e.g. 'gat' for 'cat') Agrammatism (using the wrong tense or word order) As the disease develops, speech quantity decreases and many patients become mute.
Aphasia, also known as dysphasia, [a] is an impairment in a person’s ability to comprehend or formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions. [2] The major causes are stroke and head trauma; prevalence is hard to determine, but aphasia due to stroke is estimated to be 0.1–0.4% in developed countries. [3]
Clinical signs include fluent aphasia, anomia, impaired comprehension of word meaning, and associative visual agnosia (inability to match semantically related pictures or objects). As the disease progresses, behavioral and personality changes are often seen similar to those seen in frontotemporal dementia .
"It has gotten to the point where I often just avoid interactions requiring me to speak."
The length of therapy will be different for everyone, but research suggests that intense therapy over a short amount of time can improve outcomes of speech and language therapy for patients with aphasia. Research is not suggesting the only way therapy should be administered, but gives insight on how therapy affects the patient's prognosis. [33]
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