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- Title
Varieties of Progressive Non-fluent Aphasiaa.
- Authors
CAPPA, S. F.; PERANI, D.; MESSA, C.; MIOZZO, A.; FAZIO, F.
- Abstract
We report four patients with progressive aphasia of the non-fluent type as the presenting clinical manifestation. The patients were included in a longitudinal study of focal progressive neuropsychological syndromes, and were periodically submitted to neuropsychological evaluations and neuroimaging studies (TC, MRI, SPET or PET). The pattern of neuropsychological impairment was in good agreement with the results of functional imaging studies, which indicated involvement of the anterior regions of the left hemisphere. The evolution of the clinical picture was extremely heterogeneous in the four patients, ranging from a relatively stable picture of transcortical motor aphasia to a severe progressive frontal lobe syndrome. Progressive non-fluent aphasia appears to be a reliable clinical marker of the localization of the pathological process; whether this is related to specific neuropathological conditions, such as Pick's disease, remains for the moment a matter of speculation.
- Publication
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1996, Vol 777, Issue 1, p243
- ISSN
0077-8923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1996.tb34426.x