Publications by authors named "Catherine Bezy"
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- The study looked at how aging affects the way our brain handles language, using brain scans of younger and older adults.
- Researchers found that even though older adults had some brain changes, they didn't perform worse in language tasks compared to younger people.
- The results suggest that older adults' brains might be connecting in new ways to support their language skills, which is different from what happens with other types of thinking as we age.
An increasing number of studies focus on discourse production in patients with neurodegenerative diseases and underline its clinical usefulness. However, if this is to be used as a clinical tool, one needs to consider how normal discourse varies within cognitively unimpaired elderly populations. In the current study, the aim has been to investigate discourse macrolinguistic variability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report the case of a 65-year-old woman, clinically diagnosed with the logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia (PPA), and carrier of C9ORF72 expansion, despite cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers suggesting Alzheimer's disease (AD). She underwent structural MRI, metabolic PET, and amyloid PET imaging using florbetapir. Comparison with healthy controls revealed widespread hypometabolism, left sided cortical atrophy, and an increased cortical amyloid load.
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