Rohrer, JD;
Rossor, MN;
Warren, JD;
(2009)
Neologistic jargon aphasia and agraphia in primary progressive aphasia.
Journal of the Neurological Sciences
, 277
(1-2)
155 - 159.
10.1016/j.jns.2008.10.014.
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Abstract
The terms 'jargon aphasia' and 'jargon agraphia' describe the production of incomprehensible language containing frequent phonological, semantic or neologistic errors in speech and writing, respectively. Here we describe two patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) who produced neologistic jargon either in speech or writing. We suggest that involvement of the posterior superior temporal-inferior parietal region may lead to a disconnection between stored lexical representations and language output pathways leading to aberrant activation of phonemes in neologistic jargon. Parietal lobe involvement is relatively unusual in PPA, perhaps accounting for the comparative rarity of jargon early in the course of these diseases. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Neologistic jargon aphasia and agraphia in primary progressive aphasia |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jns.2008.10.014 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2008.10.014 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 |
| Keywords: | Jargon aphasia, Primary progressive aphasia, Dementia, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, semantic dementia, Alzheimers-disease, progranulin gene, jargonagraphia, comprehension, impairment, images, series |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Neurodegenerative Diseases |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/68421 |
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