PPA Exam Questions and Answers

PPA Exam Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) What is Primary Progressive Aphasia? - Correct Answers ✅A neurodegenerative disease that primarily affects language functions and often begins in your 50s and 60s.How is PPA caused? - Correct Answers ✅Degeneration in parts of brain that are responsible for speech and language.Describe the initial stages and its progression. - Correct Answers ✅Begins very gradually and initially is experienced as difficulty thinking of common words while speaking or writing.Progressively worsens to the point where verbal communication by any means is very difficult.Ability to understand what others are saying or what is being read also declines.When ____ or ____ attacks language areas, PPA results. - Correct Answers ✅AD FTLD Can SLP's diagnose PPA?Who makes the definitive diagnosis? - Correct Answers ✅No Neurologist 1 / 2

PPA Exam Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) How are PPA and Aphasia different? - Correct Answers ✅Unlike aphasia, we don't know cause of PPA - we think its the cause of AD and FTLD attacking language area.PPA is more subtle and has gradual onset (word finding and language is impaired).PPA = Language is ________ impaired. - Correct Answers ✅disproportionately Language is primary deficit without any other impairments for at least ___ years. - Correct Answers ✅2 PPA is a clinical syndrome that is diagnosed when the

following 3 features are present: - Correct Answers ✅1. A

disorder of spoken or written language = aphasia.

• The aphasia is caused by degenerative (progressive) brain

disease.

• The aphasia is initially the most salient feature and the

chief cause of daily living limitations.What is the diagnosis to death? - Correct Answers ✅7 years or less Is PPA more prevalent in males or females? - Correct Answers ✅Males

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