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ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY
卷 53, 期 1, 页码 35-49出版社
WILEY-LISS
DOI: 10.1002/ana.10390
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- NIA NIH HHS [AG00940, K23 AG000940-05] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [K23AG000940] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) is a behaviorally focal dementia syndrome with deterioration of language functions but relative preservation of other cognitive domains for at least the first two years of disease. In this study, PPA patients with impaired word finding but intact comprehension of conversational speech and their matched control subjects were examined using voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MRI compared signal changes during phonological and semantic language tasks with those during a control task (matching letters). PPA patients showed longer reaction times and reduced accuracy versus controls on the language tasks, but no performance differences on the control task. VBM demonstrated reduced gray matter in left superior temporal and inferior parietal regions in the PPA group. However, these patients showed a normal pattern of activation within the classical language regions. In addition, PPA patients showed activations, not seen in normals, in fusiform, gyrus, precentral gyrus, and intra-parietal sulcus. These activations were found to correlate negatively with measures of naming and task performance. The additional activations in PPA may therefore represent a compensatory spread of lauguage-related neural activity or a failure to suppress activity in areas normally inhibited during language tasks.
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