Editing Aphasia (section)

==== Progressive aphasias ====
[[Primary progressive aphasia]] (PPA) is a neurodegenerative focal dementia that can be associated with progressive illnesses or dementia, such as [[frontotemporal dementia]] / [[Pick's disease|Pick Complex]] [[Motor neuron disease]], [[Progressive supranuclear palsy]], and [[Alzheimer's disease]], which is the gradual process of progressively losing the ability to think. Gradual loss of language function occurs in the context of relatively well-preserved memory, visual processing, and personality until the advanced stages. Symptoms usually begin with word-finding problems (naming) and progress to impaired grammar (syntax) and comprehension (sentence processing and semantics). The loss of language before the loss of memory differentiates PPA from typical dementias. People with PPA may have difficulties comprehending what others are saying. They can also have difficulty trying to find the right words to make a sentence.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Mesulam MM | title = Primary progressive aphasia | journal = Annals of Neurology | volume = 49 | issue = 4 | pages = 425–432 | date = April 2001 | pmid = 11310619 | doi = 10.1002/ana.91 | s2cid = 35528862 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Wilson SM, Henry ML, Besbris M, Ogar JM, Dronkers NF, Jarrold W, Miller BL, Gorno-Tempini ML | display-authors = 6 | title = Connected speech production in three variants of primary progressive aphasia | journal = Brain | volume = 133 | issue = Pt 7 | pages = 2069–2088 | date = July 2010 | pmid = 20542982 | pmc = 2892940 | doi = 10.1093/brain/awq129 | url = }}</ref><ref name="Harciarek Kertesz 2011">{{cite journal | vauthors = Harciarek M, Kertesz A | title = Primary progressive aphasias and their contribution to the contemporary knowledge about the brain-language relationship | journal = Neuropsychology Review | volume = 21 | issue = 3 | pages = 271–287 | date = September 2011 | pmid = 21809067 | pmc = 3158975 | doi = 10.1007/s11065-011-9175-9 }}</ref> There are three classifications of Primary Progressive Aphasia : [[Progressive nonfluent aphasia]] (PNFA), [[Semantic Dementia]] (SD), and [[Logopenic progressive aphasia]] (LPA).<ref name="Harciarek Kertesz 2011" /><ref name="Gorno-Tempini 2011">{{cite journal | vauthors = Gorno-Tempini ML, Hillis AE, Weintraub S, Kertesz A, Mendez M, Cappa SF, Ogar JM, Rohrer JD, Black S, Boeve BF, Manes F, Dronkers NF, Vandenberghe R, Rascovsky K, Patterson K, Miller BL, Knopman DS, Hodges JR, Mesulam MM, Grossman M | display-authors = 6 | title = Classification of primary progressive aphasia and its variants | journal = Neurology | volume = 76 | issue = 11 | pages = 1006–1014 | date = March 2011 | pmid = 21325651 | pmc = 3059138 | doi = 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31821103e6 }}</ref>

[[Jargon aphasia|Progressive Jargon Aphasia]]{{citation needed|date=August 2012}} is a fluent or receptive aphasia in which the person's speech is incomprehensible, but appears to make sense to them. Speech is fluent and effortless with intact [[syntax]] and [[grammar]], but the person has problems with the selection of [[noun]]s. Either they will replace the desired word with another that sounds or looks like the original one or has some other connection or they will replace it with sounds. As such, people with jargon aphasia often use [[neologism]]s, and may [[perseveration|perseverate]] if they try to replace the words they cannot find with sounds. Substitutions commonly involve picking another (actual) word starting with the same sound (e.g., clocktower – colander), picking another semantically related to the first (e.g., letter – scroll), or picking one phonetically similar to the intended one (e.g., lane – late).