Aprosodia and prosoplegia with right frontal neurodegeneration.

We describe a patient with progressive aprosodia and prosoplegia who had right greater than left perisylvian and temporal atrophy with an anterior predominance. We discuss the importance of assessing affective prosody and facial expression to arrive at an accurate clinical diagnosis.
PMID: 31335278 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Neurocase - July 22, 2019 Category: Neurology Authors: Bateman JR, Filley CM, Ross ED, Bettcher BM, Hubbard HI, Babiak M, Pressman PS Tags: Neurocase Source Type: research