PURE PROGRESSIVE APHEMIA

Authors
COHEN L BENOIT N VANEECKHOUT P DUCARNE B BRUNET P
Citation
L. Cohen et al., PURE PROGRESSIVE APHEMIA, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 56(8), 1993, pp. 923-924
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Neurosciences,"Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry → ACNP
ISSN journal
00223050
Volume
56
Issue
8
Year of publication
1993
Pages
923 - 924
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-3050(1993)56:8<923:PPA>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Aphemia, also called anarthria or severe apraxia of speech, is a rare disorder of speech production usually resulting from vascular lesions affecting the inferior premotor cortex of the left hemisphere. A patie nt presenting with aphemia as the sole manifestation of primary progre ssive aphasia (PPA) is reported.