Primary Progressive Aphasia

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
PPA
Pronunciation
/ˈpraɪˌmɛri prəˈgrɛsɪv əˈfeɪʒə/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine

Examples in Context

  1. Semantic dementia and fluent primary progressive aphasia : two sides of the same coin?
  2. BACKGROUND : Primary progressive aphasia is a degenerative disease of nervous system clinically characterized by the progressive decrease of speech ability and the relatively reserved memory.
  3. Primary progressive aphasia : a case analysis
  4. CONCLUSION : The most outstanding clinical characteristics of patients with primary progressive aphasia is speech dysfunction, and there is verb specific injury.
  5. AIM : To investigate a patient with primary progressive aphasia ( PPA ) and his performance of verb specific deficits and reveal the possible relationship between PPA and verb noun dissociation so as to provide some theoretical proof for clinical diagnosis and rehabilitation of the disease.

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