Primary progressive aphasia in Italian and English: a cross‐linguistic cohort study
Salvatore Mazzeo, Chris JD Hardy, Jessica Jiang, Carmen Morinelli, Valentina Moschini, Jeremy Johnson, Anthipa Chokesuwattanaskul, Anna Volkmer, Jonathan D. Rohrer, Assunta Ingannato, Silvia Bagnoli, Sonia Padiglioni, Benedetta Nacmias, Sandro Sorbi, Valentina Bessi, Jason D Warren · 2025
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Mazzeo and co-authors compare a language-led brain disease across Italian and English speakers, in this 2025 paper. The disease, primary progressive aphasia, erodes language first and comes in several forms. Italian has regular spelling, while English spelling is deep and irregular, which may shape symptoms.
The study covered one hundred sixty-six English and one hundred six Italian patients across four disease forms. One shared test per skill allowed fair comparison, adjusted for illness length and general scores. English patients more often had the nonfluent form, while Italians more often had the logopenic form. The contrast shows how a person's language can steer how brain disease appears.
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| CREATOR | Salvatore Mazzeo, Chris JD Hardy, Jessica Jiang, Carmen Morinelli, Valentina Moschini, Jeremy Johnson, Anthipa Chokesuwattanaskul, Anna Volkmer, Jonathan D. Rohrer, Assunta Ingannato, Silvia Bagnoli, Sonia Padiglioni, Benedetta Nacmias, Sandro Sorbi, Valentina Bessi, Jason D Warren |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |