Nonpharmacological interventions for cognitive impairments following primary progressive aphasia: a systematic review of the literature.

Unlabelled: This study provided a systematic review on nonpharmacological interventions applied to patients diagnosed with Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) and its variants: Semantic (SPPA), Nonfluent (NFPPA) and Logopenic (LPPA) to establish evidence-based recommendations for the clinical practice of cognitive rehabilitation for these patients.

Methods: A PubMed and LILACS literature search with no time restriction was conducted with the keywords (and its variants) AND OR OR OR OR OR . To develop its evidence-based recommendations, a research committee identified questions to be addressed and determined the level of evidence for each study according to published criteria (Cicerone et al.