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Progressive agrammatic aphasia without apraxia of speech as a distinct syndrome

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Tetzloff, Katerina A, Duffy, Joseph R, Clark, Heather M, Utianski, Rene L, Strand, Edythe A, Machulda, Mary M, Botha, Hugo, Martin, Peter R +11 more·2019·Brain

Abstract

Agrammatic aphasia affects grammatical language production and can result from a neurodegenerative disease. Although it typically presents with concomitant apraxia of speech, this is not always the case. Little is known about the clinical course and imaging features of patients that present with agrammatism in the absence of apraxia of speech, which we will refer to as progressive agrammatic aphasia. We aimed to make a detailed description of the longitudinal clinical, linguistic, and neuroimaging features of a cohort of 11 patients with progressive agrammatic aphasia to provide a complete picture of this syndrome. All patients underwent detailed speech and language, neurological and neuropsychological assessments, 3 T structural and diffusion tensor imaging MRI, 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose and Pittsburgh compound B PET. The 11 patients were matched by age and gender to 22 patients who had mixed apraxia of speech and agrammatism. The progressive agrammatic aphasia patients performed abnormally on tests of language, general cognition, executive function, and functional ability at baseline and declined in these measures over time. Only two patients eventually developed apraxia of speech, while parkinsonism was absent-to-mild throughout all visits for all patients. When compared to the patients with mixed apraxia of speech and agrammatism, the patients with progressive agrammatic aphasia performed better on tests of motor speech and parkinsonism but more poorly, and declined faster over time, on tests of general aphasia severity, agrammatism, and naming. The patients with progressive agrammatic aphasia also showed different neuroimaging abnormalities, with greater atrophy, hypometabolism and white matter tract degeneration in the prefrontal and anterior temporal lobes compared to patients with mixed apraxia of speech and agrammatism. These differences were more pronounced as the disease progressed. These results demonstrate that progressive agrammatic aphasia has a different clinical disease course and different underlying neuroanatomical abnormalities than patients with the more common syndrome of mixed agrammatism and apraxia of speech. This supports the distinction of progressive agrammatic aphasia and has implications for the classification of patients with agrammatic aphasia.

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Tetzloff, K. A., Duffy, J. R., Clark, H. M., Utianski, R. L., Strand, E. A., Machulda, M. M., Botha, H., Martin, P. R., Schwarz, C. G., Senjem, M. L., Reid, R. I., Gunter, J. L., Spychalla, A. J., Knopman, D. S., Petersen, R. C., Jack, C. R., Lowe, V. J., Josephs, K. A., & Whitwell, J. L.
Affiliations
Mayo Clinic (US)
Corresponding author
Whitwell, Jennifer L
Venue
Brain
Published
2019-06-14
Volume
142
Issue
8
Pages
2466-2482
ISSN
  • 0006-8950 (ISSN-L)
  • 1460-2156
OpenAlex
W2949937740
Cited by
55
References
76
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 3
FWCI
5.56
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Brain (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institutes of Health (R01-DC12519, R21-NS94684, R01-DC010367, R01-DC14942, U01 AG006786)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
Keywords
apraxia of speech, agrammatism, neurodegenerative diseases, parkinsonism, anterior temporal lobe atrophy, hypometabolism, Pittsburgh compound B PET, diffusion tensor imaging, clinical course, syndrome classification
MeSH terms
Aged, Aphasia, Broca, Apraxias, Brain, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Disease Progression, Neuroimaging

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