This article covers the similarities and differences between each jot down.
What Causes PPA?
PPA is because of neurodegenerative diseases, which shrink and destroy brain tissues.
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How a person is affected by neurodegenerative disease depends on which brain tissues are damaged.
Along with language impairments, people with PPA may develop behavior and personality changes.
They may become confused or disoriented as people and objects become less familiar.
Some people may become depressed, anxious, or apathetic.
Although there is no cure for PPA, it can be managed and sometimes slowed withspeech therapy.
The more you learnabout PPA, the more prepared you will be to manage its symptoms.
Not everyone will fit the exact criteria for one specific variant.
Individuals who don’t are diagnosed as having unclassifiable PPA.
These three variants are similar in that they each cause progressive brain damage and language difficulties.
The three main PPA variants can be distinguished by the specific brain regions and language skills that are affected.
Meanwhile, someone with semantic PPA may get lost in conversations, unable to comprehend what words mean.
A Word From Verywell
Learning that you have been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia can be frightening.
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