Advances in Primary Progressive Aphasia
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neurolinguistics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 August 2021) | Viewed by 43611
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Alzheimer disease; neurodegenerative diseases; cognition; cognitive post-COVID-19 disease; neuroimaging
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Interests: atypical dementia; frontotemporal dementia; primary progressive aphasia; molecular neuroimaging; biomarkers; cognitive screening tests
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Interests: frontotemporal dementia; aphasia; apraxia of speech; neuroimaging; electroencephalography
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Primary progressive aphasia is a clinical syndrome that includes a group of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by progressive language impairment. Our knowledge about this disorder has evolved significantly in recent years. Notably, correlations between clinical findings and pathology have improved, and main clinical, neuroimaging, and genetic features have been described. Furthermore, primary progressive aphasia is a good model for the study of brain–behavior relationships, and has contributed to the knowledge of the neural basis of language functioning. However, there are many open questions remaining. For instance, classification into three variants (non-fluent, semantic, and logopenic) is under debate; further data about epidemiology and natural history of the diseases are needed; and, as in other neurodegenerative disorders, successful therapies are lacking.
For this Special Issue, we invite scholars to submit original research studies and reviews regarding all possible aspects of primary progressive aphasia, from basic science, epidemiology, clinical findings, longitudinal course, language and speech features, validation of neuropsychological tools for diagnosis, neuroimaging, blood and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers, pathology, and treatments. A special focus should be placed on topics that can advance our assessment, differential diagnosis, and treatment of PPAs.
Dr. Jordi A. Matias-GuiuDr. Robert Jr Laforce
Dr. Rene L. Utianski
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Primary progressive aphasia (PPA)
- Frontotemporal dementia
- Apraxia of speech
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Neuropsychology
- Neuroimaging
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