Syntactic Impairment across the Als-ftd Continuum: a Gradation of Difficulty
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Objective: To investigate, and establish the neural correlates of, syntactic deficits in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD)-ALS, as compared to primary non-fluent aphasia (PNFA) and controls. Method: Syntactic deficits were evaluated using a reduced version of the Test for Reception of Grammar (TROG) and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) analysis was conducted.
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