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Motor speech signature of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia: Refining the phenotype.
Neurology - 22 Aug 2017
Vogel Adam P, Poole Matthew L, Pemberton Hugh, Caverlé Marja W J, Boonstra Frederique M C, Low Essie, Darby David, Brodtmann Amy
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OBJECTIVE: To provide a comprehensive description of motor speech function in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). METHODS: Forty-eight individuals (24 bvFTD and 24 age- and sex-matched healthy controls) provided speech samples. These varied in complexity and thus cognitive demand. Their language was assessed using the Progressive Aphasia Language Scale and verbal fluency tasks. Speech was analyzed...
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