Mystery Brain Disorder Robs Patients of their Words
From: Bioscience Technology - 02/17/2016

A mysterious brain disorder can be confused with early Alzheimer's disease
although it isn't robbing patients of their memories but of the words to talk
about them.

It's called primary progressive aphasia, and researchers said Sunday they're
finding better ways to diagnose the little-known syndrome. That will help
people whose thoughts are lucid but who are verbally locked in to get the
right kind of care.

"I'm using a speech device to talk to you," Robert Voogt of Virginia Beach,
Virginia, said by playing a recording from a phone-sized assistive device at
a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. "I have
trouble speaking, but I can understand you."

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