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SUBMITTER: Tetzloff KA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6299833 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brain and language 20180908
Logopenic primary progressive aphasia (lvPPA) typically results from underlying Alzheimer's disease, but subjects have been reported that do not show beta-amyloid (Aβ) deposition. These subjects do not differ on neurological and speech-language testing from Aβ-positive lvPPA, but they impressionistically show increased grammatical deficits. We performed a quantitative linguistic analysis of grammatical characteristics in Aβ-negative lvPPA compared to Aβ-positive lvPPA and agrammatic PPA, which i ...[more]