Primary progressive aphasia: six questions in search of an answer

CRS Belder, CR Marshall, J Jiang, S Mazzeo… - Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Here, we review recent progress in the diagnosis and management of primary progressive
aphasia—the language-led dementias. We pose six key unanswered questions that …

Heterogeneity and overlap in the continuum of linguistic profile of logopenic and semantic variants of primary progressive aphasia: a Profile Analysis based on …

GC Santi, F Conca, V Esposito, C Polito… - Alzheimer's Research & …, 2024 - Springer
Background Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) diagnostic criteria underestimate the
complex presentation of semantic (sv) and logopenic (lv) variants, in which symptoms …

Plasma neurofilament light chain predicts Alzheimer's disease in patients with subjective cognitive decline and mild cognitive impairment: A cross‐sectional and …

S Mazzeo, A Ingannato, G Giacomucci… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose We aimed to evaluate the accuracy of plasma neurofilament light
chain (NfL) in predicting Alzheimer's disease (AD) and the progression of cognitive decline …

Comparing two picture naming tasks in primary progressive aphasia: Insights from behavioural and neural results

C Polito, F Conca, GC Santi, V Esposito, SP Caminiti… - cortex, 2023 - Elsevier
Picture naming tests are widely used to evaluate language impairments in
neurodegenerative diseases, especially in Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). The …

Loss of speech and functional impairment in Alzheimer's disease-related primary progressive aphasia: predictive factors of decline

S Mazzeo, C Polito, M Lassi, S Bagnoli, M Mattei… - Neurobiology of …, 2022 - Elsevier
We aimed to identify features associated with different disease trajectories in Alzheimer's
disease (AD)-related primary progressive aphasia (PPA). We considered 23 patients …

Primary progressive aphasia in Italian and English: a cross-linguistic cohort study

S Mazzeo, CJD Hardy, J Jiang, C Morinelli, V Moschini… - Neurology, 2024 - neurology.org
Background and Objectives Current formulations of primary progressive aphasia (PPA)
derive largely from English-speaking patients. We hypothesized that language-specific …

Comprehensive qualitative characterization of linguistic performance profiles in primary progressive aphasia: a multivariate study with FDG-PET

E Catricalà, GC Santi, C Polito, F Conca, V Esposito… - Neurobiology of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) classification relies on profile characterization of
quantitatively impaired/spared performance in language tasks. In this study, we coextracted …

Matching clinical diagnosis and amyloid biomarkers in alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

G Giacomucci, S Mazzeo, S Bagnoli, M Casini… - Journal of personalized …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: The aims of this study were to compare the diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity,
specificity, and positive and negative predictive values (PPV, NPV) of different cerebrospinal …

[HTML][HTML] Data-driven subtypes of mixed semantic-logopenic primary progressive aphasia: Linguistic features, biomarker profiles and brain metabolic patterns

S Mazzeo, C Morinelli, C Polito, G Giacomucci… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mixed primary progressive aphasia (mPPA) accounts for a substantial proportion of primary
progressive aphasia (PPA) cases. However, the lack of a standardised definition of this …

[HTML][HTML] Case Study 2: A 60-Year-Old Man With Progressive Deficits in Language Output

K Thurin, V Patel, DL Perez… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Am Neuropsych Assoc
A 60-year-old right-handed man, who was a retired electrical engineer, presented to our
clinic after 2 years of insidious-onset progressive word-finding difficulties, as well as an …