New Alzheimer disease research reported from Columbia University

Scientists discuss in "A case of progressive apraxia of speech in pathologically verified Alzheimer disease" new findings in Alzheimer disease. In this recent report, researchers in the United States conducted a study "To present the case of a man with progressive speech loss and other clinical features and diagnostic tests consistent with fronto-temporal dementia but whose postmortem neuropathologic findings revealed Alzheimer disease (AD). Progressive apraxia of speech presents without true language abnormalities, usually seen with frontal lesions and not associated with AD pathology. We describe the clinico-pathologic case of an 87-year-old man with progressive loss of speech function...

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