The non-fluent/agrammatic variant of primary progressive aphasia
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The non-fluent/agrammatic variant of primary progressive aphasia.
The non-fluent/agrammatic variant of primary progressive aphasia (naPPA) is a young-onset neurodegenerative disorder characterised by poor grammatical comprehension and expression and a disorder of speech sound production. In an era of disease-modifying treatments, the identification of naPPA might be an important step in establishing a specific cause of neurodegenerative disease. However, diff...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet Neurology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1474-4422
DOI: 10.1016/s1474-4422(12)70099-6