Primary progressive aphasias (PPA) are neurodegenerative diseases clinically
characterized by an early and relatively isolated language impairment. Three main clinical …

The language changes that occur over the course of Alzheimer's disease (AD) can impact
communication abilities and have profound functional consequences. Picture description …

Processing a famous face involves a cascade of steps including detecting the presence of a
face, recognizing it as familiar, accessing semantic/biographical information about the …

Background: Connected speech (CS) deterioration appears early in the progression to
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and in mild cognitive impairment (MCI). As such, CS assessment …

Abstract Objective The distinction between Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) variants
remains challenging for clinicians, especially for the non-fluent (nfv-PPA) and the logopenic …

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common motor neuron disease, leading to
progressive paralysis, dysarthria, dysphagia, and respiratory disabilities. Therapy is mostly …

Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and semantic variant primary progressive aphasia
(svPPA) can present with similar language impairments, mainly in naming. It has been …

Abstract Introduction The Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Module (FTLD‐MOD)
includes a neuropsychological battery designed to assess the clinical features of FTLD …

We examined the effectiveness of a 2-week regimen of a semantic feature training in
combination with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for progressive naming …

The hub-and-spoke semantic representation theory posits that semantic knowledge is
processed in a neural network, which contains an amodal hub, the sensorimotor modality …