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1. Handedness and language learning disability differentially distribute in progressive aphasia variants

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Miller, Zachary A, Mandelli, Maria Luisa, Rankin, Katherine P, Henry, Maya L, Babiak, Miranda C, Frazier, Darvis T, Lobach, Iryna V, Bettcher, Brianne M, Wu, Teresa Q, Rabinovici, Gil D, Graff-Radford, Neill R, Miller, Bruce L, and Gorno-Tempini, Maria Luisa

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Biological Psychology, Cognitive and Computational Psychology, Psychology, Neurodegenerative, Alzheimer's Disease including Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD), Clinical Research, Dementia, Rare Diseases, Mental Health, Aging, Aphasia, Brain Disorders, Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (ADRD), Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Neurosciences, Behavioral and Social Science, Acquired Cognitive Impairment, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Mental health, Neurological, Aged, Aphasia, Primary Progressive, Cohort Studies, Comorbidity, Female, Functional Laterality, Humans, Language Development Disorders, Learning Disabilities, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Middle Aged, Primary Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia, Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, dementia aphasia, case control study, risk factors in epidemiology, Alzheimer’s disease, Medical and Health Sciences, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
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Primary progressive aphasia is a neurodegenerative clinical syndrome that presents in adulthood with an isolated, progressive language disorder. Three main clinical/anatomical variants have been described, each associated with distinctive pathology. A high frequency of neurodevelopmental learning disability in primary progressive aphasia has been reported. Because the disorder is heterogeneous with different patterns of cognitive, anatomical and biological involvement, we sought to identify whether learning disability had a predilection for one or more of the primary progressive aphasia subtypes. We screened the University of California San Francisco Memory and Aging Center's primary progressive aphasia cohort (n = 198) for history of language-related learning disability as well as hand preference, which has associations with learning disability. The study included logopenic (n = 48), non-fluent (n = 54) and semantic (n = 96) variant primary progressive aphasias. We investigated whether the presence of learning disability or non-right-handedness was associated with differential effects on demographic, neuropsychological and neuroimaging features of primary progressive aphasia. We showed that a high frequency of learning disability was present only in the logopenic group (χ(2) = 15.17, P < 0.001) and (χ(2) = 11.51, P < 0.001) compared with semantic and non-fluent populations. In this group, learning disability was associated with earlier onset of disease, more isolated language symptoms, and more focal pattern of left posterior temporoparietal atrophy. Non-right-handedness was instead over-represented in the semantic group, at nearly twice the prevalence of the general population (χ(2) = 6.34, P = 0.01). Within semantic variant primary progressive aphasia the right-handed and non-right-handed cohorts appeared homogeneous on imaging, cognitive profile, and structural analysis of brain symmetry. Lastly, the non-fluent group showed no increase in learning disability or non-right-handedness. Logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia and developmental dyslexia both manifest with phonological disturbances and posterior temporal involvement. Learning disability might confer vulnerability of this network to early-onset, focal Alzheimer's pathology. Left-handedness has been described as a proxy for atypical brain hemispheric lateralization. As non-right-handedness was increased only in the semantic group, anomalous lateralization mechanisms might instead be related to frontotemporal lobar degeneration with abnormal TARDBP. Taken together, this study suggests that neurodevelopmental signatures impart differential trajectories towards neurodegenerative disease.

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2013

2. Dissociation of quantifiers and object nouns in speech in focal neurodegenerative disease.

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Ash, Sharon, Ternes, Kylie, Bisbing, Teagan, Min, Nam Eun, Moran, Eileen, York, Collin, McMillan, Corey T., Irwin, David J., and Grossman, Murray

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*NEURODEGENERATION, *QUANTIFIERS (Linguistics), *APHASIA, *SEMANTICS, *FUNCTIONAL magnetic resonance imaging, *HOMOGENEITY
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Quantifiers such as many and some are thought to depend in part on the conceptual representation of number knowledge, while object nouns such as cookie and boy appear to depend in part on visual feature knowledge associated with object concepts. Further, number knowledge is associated with a frontal-parietal network while object knowledge is related in part to anterior and ventral portions of the temporal lobe. We examined the cognitive and anatomic basis for the spontaneous speech production of quantifiers and object nouns in non-aphasic patients with focal neurodegenerative disease associated with corticobasal syndrome (CBS, n=33), behavioral variant frontotemporal degeneration (bvFTD, n=54), and semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA, n=19). We recorded a semi-structured speech sample elicited from patients and healthy seniors (n=27) during description of the Cookie Theft scene. We observed a dissociation: CBS and bvFTD were significantly impaired in the production of quantifiers but not object nouns, while svPPA were significantly impaired in the production of object nouns but not quantifiers. MRI analysis revealed that quantifier production deficits in CBS and bvFTD were associated with disease in a frontal-parietal network important for number knowledge, while impaired production of object nouns in all patient groups was related to disease in inferior temporal regions important for representations of visual feature knowledge of objects. These findings imply that partially dissociable representations in semantic memory may underlie different segments of the lexicon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2016
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3. Primary Progressive Aphasia Associated With GRN Mutations: New Insights Into the Nonamyloid Logopenic Variant

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Bruno Dubois, Audrey Gabelle, François Sellal, Jérémie Pariente, Marie Sarazin, Agnès Camuzat, Raffaella Migliaccio, Frédérique Etcharry-Bouyx, Amandine Geraudie, Sophie Ferrieux, Simona Bottani, Carole Roué-Jagot, Mira Didic, Florence Pasquier, Leila Sellami, Alexis Brice, Olivier Colliot, Fabienne Clot, Marc Teichmann, Didier Hannequin, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Claire Boutoleau-Bretonnière, Julien Lagarde, Cinzia Coppola, David Wallon, Richard Levy, Marie Noguès-Lassiaille, Dario Saracino, Aurélie Funkiewiez, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, Olivier Martinaud, Isabelle Le Ber, Marion Houot, Stéphane Epelbaum, Sophie Auriacombe, Alexandre Morin, Vincent Deramecourt, Ftd-Als, Philippe Couratier, Daisy Rinaldi, Saracino, Dario, Ferrieux, Sophie, Noguès-Lassiaille, Marie, Houot, Marion, Funkiewiez, Aurélie, Sellami, Leila, Deramecourt, Vincent, Pasquier, Florence, Couratier, Philippe, Pariente, Jérémie, Géraudie, Amandine, Epelbaum, Stéphane, Wallon, David, Hannequin, Didier, Martinaud, Olivier, Clot, Fabienne, Camuzat, Agnè, Bottani, Simona, Rinaldi, Daisy, Auriacombe, Sophie, Sarazin, Marie, Didic, Mira, Boutoleau-Bretonnière, Claire, Thauvin-Robinet, Christel, Lagarde, Julien, Roué-Jagot, Carole, Sellal, Françoi, Gabelle, Audrey, Etcharry-Bouyx, Frédérique, Morin, Alexandre, Coppola, Cinzia, Levy, Richard, Dubois, Bruno, Brice, Alexi, Colliot, Olivier, Luisa Gorno-Tempini, Maria, Teichmann, Marc, Migliaccio, Raffaella, Le Ber, Isabelle, Institut du Cerveau = Paris Brain Institute (ICM), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), CHU Lille, CHU Limoges, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse), Algorithms, models and methods for images and signals of the human brain (ARAMIS), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Inria de Paris, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut du Cerveau = Paris Brain Institute (ICM), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Génomique et Médecine Personnalisée du Cancer et des Maladies Neuropsychiatriques (GPMCND), Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Neuropsychologie et imagerie de la mémoire humaine (NIMH), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), CHU Charles Foix [AP-HP], Bordeaux population health (BPH), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut de Santé Publique, d'Épidémiologie et de Développement (ISPED)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne [Paris], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Hôpital de la Timone [CHU - APHM] (TIMONE), Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (INS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes (CHU Nantes), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), GHU AP-HP Centre Université de Paris, Hôpitaux Civils de Colmar, Neuropsychiatrie : recherche épidémiologique et clinique (PSNREC), Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers (CHU Angers), PRES Université Nantes Angers Le Mans (UNAM), University of the Study of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, University of California [San Francisco] (UC San Francisco), University of California (UC), The research leading to these results received funding from the Investissements davenir ANR-11-INBS-0011. This work was funded by the Programme Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique (PHRC) FTLD-exome (to ILB, promotion by Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris), PHRC Predict-PGRN (to ILB, promotion by Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris)., ANR-11-INBS-0011,NeurATRIS,Infrastructure de Recherche Translationnelle pour les Biothérapies en Neurosciences(2011), ANR-19-P3IA-0001,PRAIRIE,PaRis Artificial Intelligence Research InstitutE(2019), Admin, Oskar, Infrastructures - Infrastructure de Recherche Translationnelle pour les Biothérapies en Neurosciences - - NeurATRIS2011 - ANR-11-INBS-0011 - INBS - VALID, PaRis Artificial Intelligence Research InstitutE - - PRAIRIE2019 - ANR-19-P3IA-0001 - P3IA - VALID, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle Epinière = Brain and Spine Institute (ICM), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CHU Toulouse [Toulouse], Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle Epinière = Brain and Spine Institute (ICM), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), University of California [San Francisco] (UCSF), University of California, Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE)

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Oncology, medicine.medical_specialty, Apraxia, 050105 experimental psychology, Primary progressive aphasia, 03 medical and health sciences, Dementia aphasia, 0302 clinical medicine, Atrophy, Gyrus, Aphasia, Agrammatism, Internal medicine, medicine, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Prospective cohort study, business.industry, 05 social sciences, respiratory system, medicine.disease, medicine.anatomical_structure, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Neurology (clinical), medicine.symptom, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Frontotemporal dementia
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ObjectiveTo determine relative frequencies and linguistic profiles of primary progressive aphasia (PPA) variants associated with GRN (progranulin) mutations and to study their neuroanatomic correlates.MethodsPatients with PPA carrying GRN mutations (PPA-GRN) were selected among a national prospective research cohort of 1,696 patients with frontotemporal dementia, including 235 patients with PPA. All patients with amyloid-positive CSF biomarkers were excluded. In this cross-sectional study, speech/language and cognitive profiles were characterized with standardized evaluations, and gray matter (GM) atrophy patterns using voxel-based morphometry. Comparisons were performed with controls and patients with sporadic PPA.ResultsAmong the 235 patients with PPA, 45 (19%) carried GRN mutations, and we studied 32 of these. We showed that logopenic PPA (lvPPA) was the most frequent linguistic variant (n = 13, 41%), followed by nonfluent/agrammatic (nfvPPA; n = 9, 28%) and mixed forms (n = 8, 25%). Semantic variant was rather rare (n = 2, 6%). Patients with lvPPA, qualified as nonamyloid lvPPA, presented canonical logopenic deficit. Seven of 13 had a pure form; 6 showed subtle additional linguistic deficits not fitting criteria for mixed PPA and hence were labeled as logopenic-spectrum variant. GM atrophy involved primarily left posterior temporal gyrus, mirroring neuroanatomic changes of amyloid-positive-lvPPA. Patients with nfvPPA presented agrammatism (89%) rather than apraxia of speech (11%).ConclusionsThis study shows that the most frequent PPA variant associated with GRN mutations is nonamyloid lvPPA, preceding nfvPPA and mixed forms, and illustrates that the language network may be affected at different levels. GRN testing is indicated for patients with PPA, whether familial or sporadic. This finding is important for upcoming GRN gene–specific therapies.

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2021
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4. Cerebral microbleeds and CSF Alzheimer biomarkers in primary progressive aphasias

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Mendes Aguiar Santos, Aline, Bertrand, Anne, Lamari, Foudil, Colliot, Olivier, Routier, Alexandre, Godefroy, Olivier, Etcharry-Bouyx, Frédérique, Moreaud, Olivier, Pasquier, Florence, Couratier, Philippe, Bennys, Karim, Vercelletto, Martine, Martinaud, Olivier, Laurent, Bernard, Pariente, Jérémie, Puel, Michèle, Epelbaum, Stéphane, Belliard, Serge, Kaaouana, Takoua, Fillon, Ludovic, Chupin, Marie, Dubois, Bruno, Teichmann, Marc, PHRC \\'CAPP\\' Study Group, Instituto Butantan [São Paulo], CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Equipe NEMESIS - Centre de Recherches de l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (NEMESIS-CRICM), Centre de Recherche de l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (CRICM), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Sorbonne Université (SU), CHU Amiens-Picardie, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Fonctionnelles et Pathologies - UR UPJV 4559 (LNFP), Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), Service de neurologie [Angers], Université d'Angers (UA)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers (CHU Angers), PRES Université Nantes Angers Le Mans (UNAM)-PRES Université Nantes Angers Le Mans (UNAM), Pôle Psychiatrie et Neurologie [Grenoble], Centre Hospitalier Universitaire [Grenoble] (CHU), Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition (LPNC ), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Département de neurologie [Lille], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), Service de Neurologie [CHU Limoges], CHU Limoges, Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale (NET), CHU Limoges-Institut d'Epidémiologie Neurologique et de Neurologie Tropicale-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut Génomique, Environnement, Immunité, Santé, Thérapeutique (GEIST), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM), Département de neurologie [Montpellier], Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier)-Hôpital Gui de Chauliac [CHU Montpellier], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Service de neurologie [Nantes], Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes (CHU Nantes)-Hôpital Guillaume-et-René-Laennec [Saint-Herblain], Service de neurologie [Rouen], CHU Rouen, Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU), Toulouse Neuro Imaging Center (ToNIC), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Toulouse Mind & Brain Institut (TMBI), Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT), Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle Epinière = Brain and Spine Institute (ICM), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service de neurologie [Rennes], Université de Rennes (UR), Centre d'Acquisition et de Traitement des Images [Paris], Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), FRONTlab - Systèmes frontaux : fonctions et dysfonctions (FRONTlab), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Service de Biochimie Métabolique [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Département de neurologie[Lille], Université de Lille, Droit et Santé-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier)-Hôpital Gui de Chauliac [Montpellier]-Université de Montpellier (UM), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Hôpital Purpan [Toulouse], CHU Toulouse [Toulouse]-CHU Toulouse [Toulouse], Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], and Université de Lille-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille)

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Male, 0301 basic medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, tau Proteins, Neuropathology, Cohort Studies, Primary progressive aphasia, 03 medical and health sciences, Dementia aphasia, 0302 clinical medicine, Alzheimer Disease, Assessment of cognitive disorders/dementia, Internal medicine, Aphasia, Prevalence, medicine, Humans, Aged, Cerebral Hemorrhage, Aged, 80 and over, Amyloid beta-Peptides, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Brain, Magnetic resonance imaging, Middle Aged, Alzheimer's disease, respiratory system, medicine.disease, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Peptide Fragments, Hyperintensity, Aphasia, Primary Progressive, Cross-Sectional Studies, 030104 developmental biology, Susceptibility weighted imaging, ddc:618.97, Cardiology, Biomarker (medicine), Female, Neurology (clinical), medicine.symptom, business, Biomarkers, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, [SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology, MRI
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ObjectiveTo reveal the prevalence and localization of cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) in the 3 main variants of primary progressive aphasia (PPA) (logopenic, semantic, and nonfluent/agrammatic), to identify the relationship with underlying Alzheimer pathology, and to explore whether CMBs contribute to language breakdown.MethodsWe used a cross-sectional design in a multicenter cohort of 82 patients with PPA and 19 similarly aged healthy controls. MRI allowed for rating CMBs (2-dimensional gradient recalled echo T2*, susceptibility weighted imaging sequences) and white matter hyperintensities. CSF Alzheimer disease biomarker analyses available in 63 of the 82 patients provided the stratification of PPA into subgroups with patients who had or did not have probable underlying Alzheimer pathology.ResultsThe prevalence of CMBs was higher in patients with PPA (28%) than in controls (16%). They were more prevalent in logopenic PPA (50%) than in semantic PPA (18%) and nonfluent/agrammatic PPA (17%). The localization of CMBs was mainly lobar (81%) with no difference between the PPA variants. CMBs were more frequent in PPA patients with positive than with negative CSF Alzheimer disease biomarkers (67% vs 20%). Patients with and without lobar CMBs had similar volumes of white matter hyperintensities. Language and general cognitive impairment in PPA was unrelated to CMB rates.ConclusionsCMB prevalence in PPA is higher than in healthy controls. CMBs were most prevalent in the logopenic variant, were related to underlying Alzheimer pathology, and did not affect the language/cognitive impairment. Our findings also suggest that CMB detection with MRI contributes to PPA variant diagnosis, especially of logopenic PPA, and provides an estimator of the underlying neuropathology.

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2018
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5. Handedness and language learning disability differentially distribute in progressive aphasia variants

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Miranda Babiak, Zachary A. Miller, Bruce L. Miller, Maya L. Henry, Maria Luisa Mandelli, Neill R. Graff-Radford, Darvis T. Frazier, Katherine P. Rankin, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, Iryna Lobach, Teresa Wu, Brianne M. Bettcher, and Gil D. Rabinovici

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Male, Aging, Aphasiology, Comorbidity, Audiology, Neurodegenerative, frontotemporal dementia, Medical and Health Sciences, Functional Laterality, Developmental psychology, Primary progressive aphasia, Cohort Studies, risk factors in epidemiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Language disorder, Aetiology, education.field_of_study, Learning Disabilities, Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, Alzheimer's disease, Middle Aged, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, dementia aphasia, Learning disability, Neurological, Mental health, Female, medicine.symptom, Psychology, Alzheimer’s disease, medicine.medical_specialty, Population, Primary Progressive, Lateralization of brain function, Clinical Research, Aphasia, medicine, Acquired Cognitive Impairment, Humans, Language Development Disorders, Primary Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia, education, Aged, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Neurosciences, Original Articles, case control study, medicine.disease, Brain Disorders, Aphasia, Primary Progressive, Dementia, Neurology (clinical)
Abstract

Primary progressive aphasia is a neurodegenerative clinical syndrome that presents in adulthood with an isolated, progressive language disorder. Three main clinical/anatomical variants have been described, each associated with distinctive pathology. A high frequency of neurodevelopmental learning disability in primary progressive aphasia has been reported. Because the disorder is heterogeneous with different patterns of cognitive, anatomical and biological involvement, we sought to identify whether learning disability had a predilection for one or more of the primary progressive aphasia subtypes. We screened the University of California San Francisco Memory and Aging Center's primary progressive aphasia cohort (n = 198) for history of language-related learning disability as well as hand preference, which has associations with learning disability. The study included logopenic (n = 48), non-fluent (n = 54) and semantic (n = 96) variant primary progressive aphasias. We investigated whether the presence of learning disability or non-right-handedness was associated with differential effects on demographic, neuropsychological and neuroimaging features of primary progressive aphasia. We showed that a high frequency of learning disability was present only in the logopenic group (χ(2) = 15.17, P < 0.001) and (χ(2) = 11.51, P < 0.001) compared with semantic and non-fluent populations. In this group, learning disability was associated with earlier onset of disease, more isolated language symptoms, and more focal pattern of left posterior temporoparietal atrophy. Non-right-handedness was instead over-represented in the semantic group, at nearly twice the prevalence of the general population (χ(2) = 6.34, P = 0.01). Within semantic variant primary progressive aphasia the right-handed and non-right-handed cohorts appeared homogeneous on imaging, cognitive profile, and structural analysis of brain symmetry. Lastly, the non-fluent group showed no increase in learning disability or non-right-handedness. Logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia and developmental dyslexia both manifest with phonological disturbances and posterior temporal involvement. Learning disability might confer vulnerability of this network to early-onset, focal Alzheimer's pathology. Left-handedness has been described as a proxy for atypical brain hemispheric lateralization. As non-right-handedness was increased only in the semantic group, anomalous lateralization mechanisms might instead be related to frontotemporal lobar degeneration with abnormal TARDBP. Taken together, this study suggests that neurodevelopmental signatures impart differential trajectories towards neurodegenerative disease.

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2013

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