Writing in Richardson variant of progressive supranuclear palsy in comparison to progressive non-fluent aphasia
| Autor: | Marcin Kozłowski, Maria Barcikowska, Jarosław Sławek, Anna Barczak, Ewa Narożańska, Emilia J. Sitek, Klaudia Kluj-Kozłowska, Agnieszka Konkel, Magda Dąbrowska |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Progressive non-fluent aphasia Audiology Developmental psychology Progressive supranuclear palsy Primary progressive aphasia Aphasia medicine Humans Primary Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia Neuropsychological assessment Agraphia Aged Aged 80 and over medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Middle Aged medicine.disease eye diseases Micrographia Clinical diagnosis Female Surgery Supranuclear Palsy Progressive Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska. 49:217-222 |
| ISSN: | 0028-3843 |
| Popis: | Background The overlap between progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and progressive non-fluent aphasia (PNFA) is being increasingly recognized. In this paper descriptive writing in patients with Richardson syndrome of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP-RS) is compared to writing samples from patients with PNFA. Methods Twenty-seven patients participated in the study: 17 with the clinical diagnosis of PSP-RS and 10 with PNFA. Untimed written picture description was administered during neuropsychological assessment and subsequently scored by two raters blinded to the clinical diagnosis. Lexical and syntactic content, as well as writing errors (e.g. omission and perseverative errors) were analyzed. Results In patients with PSP-RS both letter and diacritic mark omission errors were very frequent. Micrographia was present in 8 cases (47%) in PSP-RS group and in one case (10%) with PNFA. Perseverative errors did not differentiate between the groups. Conclusions As omission errors predominate in writing of patients with PSP-RS, writing seems to be compromised mainly because of oculomotor deficits, that may alter visual feedback while writing. |
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