Abstract

RICO VELASCO, Gloria Andrea; MARTINEZ GONZALEZ, Carmen Patricia; BENAVIDES LOPEZ, Gina Paola  and  ARTUNDUAGA, Maribel Motta. Clinical course and neuropsychological profile of Frontotemporal Neurocognitive Disorder Linguistic Language Variant. Psychol. av. discip. [online]. 2021, vol.15, n.1, pp.57-67.  Epub Jan 14, 2022. ISSN 1900-2386.  https://doi.org/10.21500/19002386.5281.

Mild cognitive impairment, frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by clinical manifestations of behavior and linguistic subtypes. Primary Progressive Aphasia (APP) is a syndrome in which language alterations appear that include three types of variations: Non - fluent, Semantic and Logopenic. This study describes the clinical evolution and the neurophysiological characteristics of a 63 years old woman that started with a progressive language impairment. The functions which are evaluated are attention, memory, language and executive functions. The patient obtained a low performance in memory, processing speed and executive functions. The language is characterized by low fluency, agramatism, paraphasias and denomination difficulties. It is concluded, that the patient has characteristics of APP non-fluent which varies throughout the time and it affects her performance; characteristics of a clinical course of a greater neurocognitive disorder might be due to a lobe frontotemporal degeneration.

Keywords : Primary progressive aphasia; neuropsychology; cognition; cognitive impairment; frontotemporal dementia.

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