Dementia is an umbrella term for a set of diseases characterised by the progressive deterioration of cognitive functions. It can be broken down into several subtypes, which include Alzheimer’s and ...

Christopher Durang, one of American theater’s most accomplished and acclaimed playwrights, has been diagnosed with logopenic primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a rare disorder of language which, ...

Difficulty finding words or the habit of substituting them with others that are similar semantically – such as knife and cutter – or phonologically – such as knife and wife – are usually the first ...

Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) is a frontotemporal dementia that mainly impacts the brain's language centres, specifically the left hemisphere. This can lead to difficulty in communication.

Memory was preserved over time in people who had primary progressive aphasia (PPA) with Alzheimer's disease, a small study showed. Episodic memory was preserved at initial testing and did not decline ...