Motor speech disorders associated with primary progressive aphasia
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Primary progressive aphasia and kindred disorders.
The existence of progressive aphasias has been known for more than 100 years. Pick (1892, 1904), Sérieux (1893), Franceschi (1908), and Rosenfeld (1909) were among the first to report such patients. The current resurgence of interest in this condition can be traced to a 1982 report of six patients with a slowly progressive aphasia and to the subsequent delineation of the primary progressive aph...
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عنوان ژورنال: Aphasiology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0268-7038,1464-5041
DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2013.869307