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Neila J Donovan1, Diane L Kendall, Anna Bacon Moore
1VA RR&D Brain Rehabilitation Research Center, Gainsville, Florida 32608, USA. ndonovan@phhp.ufl.edu
Abstract:
The purpose of this case study was to examine the integrity of cognitive skills, language usage, and language structure components in a patient with corticobasal degeneration (CBD). CBD is a levadopa-nonresponsive, degenerative neurologic movement disorder that is generally accompanied by cognitive (frontal executive dysfunction, dementia) and linguistic (aphasia) disorders. However, no one has reported on social language usage deficits in cases of CBD. The reported frontal executive dysfunction found in CBD led us to expect social language usage deficits in the present case study. Consistent with the literature, the patient demonstrated motor, cognitive (severe apraxia, frontal executive deficits, dementia), and linguistic deficits (aphasia). However she also demonstrated significantly abnormal social language usage previously unreported in the literature.
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