Seminár z kognitívnej vedy - Zsolt Cséfalvay (22.11.2016)
v utorok 22.11.2016 o 16:30 hod. v miestnosti I/9
Prednášajúci: prof. PaedDr. Zsolt Cséfalvay, PhD. (Katedra logopédie, Pedagogicka fakulta UK v Bratislave)
Názov: Primary progressive aphasia – a dementia of language network
Termín: 22.11.2016, 16:30 hod., I/9
Abstrakt:
Language impairment is a common clinical feature of neurodegenerative disease. Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a neurological syndrome in which language capabilities become slowly and progressively impaired, while other mental functions remain preserved. In PPA a language impairment interferes with the usage or comprehension of words and sentences. There are different clinical variants of PPA (agrammatic, logopenic and semantic variants), each with a characteristic pattern of atrophy. The underlying neuropathological diseases are heterogeneous and can include Alzheimer's disease as well as frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Because relatively simple tests of single-word and sentence processing can have substantial diagnostic utility, language testing should always be part of the clinical assessment of patients with suspected dementia. A comprehensive language-specific test should be used in assessment of language in Slovak speaking patients with dementia.