Verbal Short-Term Memory Disturbance in the Primary Progressive Aphasias: Challenges and Distinctions in a Clinical Setting

Verbal Short-Term Memory Disturbance in the Primary Progressive Aphasias: Challenges and Distinctions in a Clinical Setting

Impaired verbal ‘phonological’ short-term memory is considered a cardinal feature of the logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia (lv-PPA) and is assumed to underpin most of the language deficits in this syndrome. Clinically, examination of verbal short-term memory in individuals presenting...

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Main Authors: David Foxe, Sau Chi Cheung, Nicholas J. Cordato, James R. Burrell, Rebekah M. Ahmed, Cathleen Taylor-Rubin, Muireann Irish, Olivier Piguet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-08-01
Series:Brain Sciences
Subjects:
primary progressive aphasia
frontotemporal dementia
Alzheimer’s disease
neuropsychology
span
sentence repetition
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/11/8/1060

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