Profiling language and cognition in greek-speaking patients with primary progressive aphasia

Abstract

Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) is a degenerative condition characterized by progressive loss of language function. Individuals with PPA are divided into three clinical variants based on distinct speech and language features and patterns of cognitive decline: the semantic variant of PPA (svPPA), the non-fluent/agrammatic variant of PPA (nfvPPA) and the logopenic variant of PPA (lvPPA). The most common types of neurodegeneration in PPA are frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The main aim of the research was to describe the clinical presentation of PPA and provide a detailed cognitive-linguistic profile of PPA for the Greek-language. The vast majority of studies in PPA involve participants whose native language is English. Detailed reports of PPA in other languages are scarce.