Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. According to the Weill Institute For Neurosciences, persons with logopenic variant ...

Christopher Durang, one of American theater’s most accomplished and acclaimed playwrights, has been diagnosed with logopenic primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a rare disorder of language which, ...

DEMENTIA has evolved into many different forms of cognitive deficit, and the "atypical" forms of the disease are starting to gain more recognition. These types of cognitive decline, however, tend to ...

The image of Bruce Willis, an athletic and wise-cracking movie star, struggling to remember his lines is a tough one. Progressive aphasia is frightening for anyone, but when it afflicts an actor who ...

One variant of primary progressive aphasia came with substantial hearing impairment suggestive of auditory pathway involvement in this neurodegenerative condition, researchers at one center found.

Variant syndromes of Alzheimer disease (AD), led by deficits that extend beyond memory dysfunction, are of considerable clinical and neurobiological importance. Such syndromes present major challenges ...