Patterns of Dysgraphia in Primary Progressive Aphasia Compared to Post-Stroke Aphasia by Andreia V. Faria, Jenny Crinion, Kyrana Tsapkini, Melissa Newhart, Cameron Davis, Shannon Cooley, Susumu Mori, Argye E. Hillis

“…We report patterns of dysgraphia in participants with primary progressive aphasia that can be explained by assuming disruption of one or more cognitive processes or representations in the complex process of spelling. …”
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Degenerative Jargon Aphasia: Unusual Progression of Logopenic/Phonological Progressive Aphasia? by Paolo Caffarra, Simona Gardini, Stefano Cappa, Francesca Dieci, Letizia Concari, Federica Barocco, Caterina Ghetti, Livia Ruffini, Guido Dalla Rosa Prati

“…Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) corresponds to the gradual degeneration of language which can occur as nonfluent/agrammatic PPA, semantic variant PPA or logopenic variant PPA. …”
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Crossed Aphasia. II: Why Are Deep Lesions Overrepresented with Respect to Standard Aphasia? by M. Laiacona, E. Capitani, C. Stangalino, L. Lorenzi

“…In this paper we have reviewed the cases of vascular crossed aphasia reported in the literature, in order to check whether deep lesions are really overrepresented in crossed aphasia with respect to standard aphasia. …”
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Therapy Efficacy in Chronic Aphasia by Anna Basso, Margherita Macis

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Completion Phenomenon in Transcortical Sensory Aphasia by Y. Nakagawa, H. Tanabe, M. Ikeda, H. Kazui, K. Ito, N. Inoue, Y. Hatakenaka, T. Sawada, H. Ikeda, J. Shiraishi

“…We investigated completion phenomenon for proverbs in cases demonstrating transcortical sensory aphasia due to a variety of diseases. Lack of this completion was exclusively observed in patients with focal atrophy. …”
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Inflammatory Pseudotumor of the Head Presenting with Hemiparesis and Aphasia by K. Saifudheen, James Jose, V. Abdul Gafoor

“…We report a case of inflammatory pseudotumor involving sphenoid sinus, cavernous sinus, superior orbital fissure, orbital muscle, and intracranial extension into left temporal lobe producing right hemiparesis and wernicke's aphasia. The patient improved clinically and radiologically with steroid administration. …”
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Decision Making Cognition in Primary Progressive Aphasia by Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht, Teresa Torralva, María Roca, Daniela Szenkman, Agustin Ibanez, Pablo Richly, Mariángeles Pose, Facundo Manes

“…We sought to investigate the decision making profile of Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) by assessing patients diagnosed with this disease (n = 10), patients diagnosed with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD, n = 35), and matched controls (n = 14) using the Iowa Gambling Task, a widely used test that mimics real-life decision making. …”
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Different Cognitive Profiles of Patients with Severe Aphasia by Chiara Valeria Marinelli, Simona Spaccavento, Angela Craca, Paola Marangolo, Paola Angelelli

“…However, patients suffering from severe aphasia show heterogeneous performance in basic cognition. …”
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The Nature of Lexical-Semantic Access in Bilingual Aphasia by Swathi Kiran, Isabel Balachandran, Jason Lucas

“…Despite a growing clinical need, there are no clear guidelines on assessment of lexical access in the two languages in individuals with bilingual aphasia. Objective. In this study, we examined the influence of language proficiency on three tasks requiring lexical access in English and Spanish bilingual normal controls and in bilingual individuals with aphasia. …”
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Adaptation and Validation of Standardized Aphasia Tests in Different Languages: Lessons from the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination–Short Form in Greek by Kyrana Tsapkini, Christina Helen Vlahou, Costantin Potagas

“…Qualitative errors of patients diagnosed with aphasia on the test are presented, and limitations and generalizable strengths of this adaptation are discussed.…”
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'Everything is different’: the impact of acquiring aphasia on information seeking by Birgit Kvikne, Gerd Berget

Subjects: “…aphasia…”
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Severe Broca’s Aphasia without Broca’s Area Damage by Julius Fridriksson, Leonardo Bonilha, Chris Rorden

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Transient Crossed Aphasia: A Case Study with SPECT by José M. Ferro, Guilhermina Cantinho, Élia Baeta

“…A 45-year-old right-handed man developed “crossed” anomie aphasia, neglect and inaccurate reaching of his left arm in both hemispaces due to a right parietal haemorrhage. …”
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Variations in the Presentation of Aphasia in Patients with Closed Head Injuries by Dara Oliver Kavanagh, Conor Lynam, Thorsten Düerk, Mary Casey, Paul W. Eustace

“…There are few reports in the literature of aphasia following closed head injury despite the common presentation of closed head injury. …”
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Association Between Language Skills and Statistical Learning in Aphasia by Talat BULUT, Emine BAHAR

Subjects: “…aphasia…”
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease with Mixed Transcortical Aphasia: Insights into Echolalia by S. E. McPherson, J. D. Kuratani, J. L. Cummings, J. Shih, P. S. Mischel, H. V. Vinters

“…Aphasia is a common manifestation of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), and investigation of the linguistic disorders of CJD patients may provide insights into the neurobiological mechanisms of language and aphasia. …”
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Right Hemisphere Involvement in Non-Fluent Primary Progressive Aphasia by Claudia Repetto, Rosa Manenti, Maria Cotelli, Marco Calabria, Orazio Zanetti, Barbara Borroni, Alessandro Padovani, Carlo Miniussi

“…We described a 56-years-old man with a diagnosis of “non-fluent primary progressive aphasia” (NfPPA). An accurate neuropsychological, neurological and neuroimaging evaluation was performed in order to assess clinical and behavioural features of the patient.…”
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Autoimmune encephalitis with aphasia as the first presentation: A case report by Mixin Shi, Shu Wang, Bin Xiong

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Crossed Aphasia in a Dextral without “Minor” Hemisphere Signs by J. C. Marshall, P. W. Halligan

“…A case of severe aphasia after right hemisphere stroke, confirmed by CT, in an unambiguously dextral patient is reported. …”
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Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Polymorphism and Aphasia after Stroke by Nathan T. Lee, Fatimah Ahmedy, Natiara Mohamad Hashim, Khin Nyein Yin, Kai Ling Chin

“…Still, the role of BDNF polymorphism in poststroke aphasia is relatively unclear. This review assesses the recent evidence on the association between the BDNF polymorphism and aphasia recovery in poststroke patients. …”
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