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Narrative speech analysis, alongside standard tests, helps differentiate Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) subtypes. This approach improves the identification of underlying neuropathologies like Alzheimer's disease (AD) and specific tauopathies.

Keywords:
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  • Neurolinguistics
  • Neurodegenerative Diseases

Background:

  • Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) clinical syndromes often lack consistent alignment with specific neuropathologies.
  • Accurate pathological diagnosis in PPA is crucial for targeted treatment and understanding disease progression.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify distinct language markers for specific neuropathologies within PPA using both standard clinical assessments and detailed narrative speech analysis.
  • To enhance the diagnostic accuracy for underlying pathologies in PPA.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of data from 82 autopsy-confirmed PPA cases, encompassing Alzheimer's disease (AD), TDP-43 type C (TDP-C), Pick's disease, and 4R-tauopathies (PSP/CBD).
  • Application of linear mixed-effects regression to evaluate performance on standardized aphasia tests and narrative speech variables.

Main Results:

  • TDP-C cases exhibited severe semantic deficits with preserved fluency; AD cases were characterized by impaired repetition.
  • Narrative analysis revealed distinct patterns in 4R-tauopathies: Cortico-basal degeneration (CBD) showed poorer syntax and irregular verb inflection compared to Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) and Pick's disease.
  • PSP cases presented with the lowest fluency among the 4R-tauopathies.

Conclusions:

  • Standardized tests effectively identify lexical-semantic deficits in AD and TDP-C.
  • Narrative speech measures provide critical insights into subtle grammatical and fluency differences, essential for differentiating specific tauopathies.
  • This study proposes a more robust framework for predicting the underlying pathology in PPA patients.