Profiles of language impairment in progressive nonfluent aphasia
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Why are patients with progressive nonfluent aphasia nonfluent?
OBJECTIVE To investigate the cognitive and neural basis for nonfluent speech in progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA). BACKGROUND Nonfluent speech is the hallmark feature of PNFA, and this has been attributed to impairments in syntactic processing, motor-speech planning, and executive functioning that also occur in these patients. Patients with PNFA have left inferior frontal atrophy. METHOD...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0972-2327
DOI: 10.4103/0972-2327.22818