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It is suspected that an atypical form of Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of logopenic progressive aphasia. [3] [4] Although patients with the logopenic variant of PPA are still able to produce speech, their speech rate may be significantly slowed due to word retrieval difficulty. [4]
[4] [6] This is termed poverty of content [4] or poverty of content of speech. [6] Under Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms used in clinical research, thought blocking is considered a part of alogia, and so is increased latency in response. [7] This condition is associated with schizophrenia, dementia, severe depression, and autism.
Patients with Wernicke's aphasia demonstrate fluent speech, which is characterized by typical speech rate, intact syntactic abilities and effortless speech output. [3] Writing often reflects speech in that it tends to lack content or meaning. In most cases, motor deficits (i.e. hemiparesis) do not occur in individuals with Wernicke's aphasia. [4]
Researchers have developed an AI tool that can predict with nearly 80% accuracy whether someone is at risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease based on their speech patterns.
Aphasia, also known as dysphasia, [a] is an impairment in a person’s ability to comprehend or formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions. [2] The major causes are stroke and head trauma; prevalence is hard to determine, but aphasia due to stroke is estimated to be 0.1–0.4% in developed countries. [3]
[1] [2] [3] Semantic dementia is a disorder of semantic memory that causes patients to lose the ability to match words or images to their meanings. [4] However, it is fairly rare for patients with semantic dementia to develop category specific impairments, though there have been documented cases of it occurring. [5]