PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA Definition & Meaning

primary progressive aphasia

[ prahy-mer-ee pruh-gres-iv uh-fey-zhuh, prahy-muh-ree ]

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a language disorder associated with frontotemporal dementia, characterized by the gradual loss of a previously held ability to speak, write, sign, or understand language, and caused by a neurodegenerative disease: There are three subtypes of primary progressive aphasia, the first distinguished by fluent but semantically empty speech fluent variant or semantic dementia, the second by difficulty in finding words as well as by language consisting of content words but lacking grammatical elements nonfluent variant, and the third by preserved grammar but a difficulty in finding words when speaking logopenic variant. : PPA

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Origin of primary progressive aphasia¹

First recorded in 1990–95

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A month later, Morrissey said in her filing, Williams was diagnosed with frontotemporal lobe dementia and primary progressive aphasia — both debilitating neurodegenerative diseases that cause problems with behavior and language, per the National Institute on Aging — which have since left her “cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated.”

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She previously supported New York state Sen. Michelle Hinchey — whose father had primary progressive aphasia frontotemporal dementia — in creating an FTD registry, “so that when anyone in the state of New York is diagnosed, it gets recorded.”

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In 2016, Mr. Durang was found to have a rare form of dementia, logopenic primary progressive aphasia.

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The findings have implications for potentially steering neuroscience studies toward regions of the brain that process language, when investigating MCI and other forms of dementia, such as primary progressive aphasia.

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At the end of “The View” segment, co-host Whoopi Goldberg shared a statement from Williams’ team that she’s been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.

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