What does PPA stand for?

Primary Progressive Aphasia (form of dementia)

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Science, medicine, engineering, etc.

Other Resources:

<< Previous	Abbreviation Database Surfer		Next >>
Pre-Power Amplifier Preferred Prescription Assistance Preferred Provider Access Preferred Provider Allowance Preliminary Plan Approval Preliminary Planning Authorization Preliminary Project Approval Premier Bancorp, Inc. (stock symbol) Prescription Pricing Authority (UK) Primary Plate Analyzer		Princeton-Pennsylvania Proton Accelerator Principal Planning Agent Principles, Policies and Applicability Printing Performance Architecture Prior Period Adjustment Privacy Protection Act of 1980 Private Passenger Auto Process/Product Audits Procurement Planning Agreement Professional Pharmacy Alliance

Samples in periodicals archive:

Special thanks to the members of the Taos-Milagro Rotary Club for the support and love they provided Jerry, especially during his affliction with Primary Progressive Aphasia.

FUNERAL SERVICES AND MEMORIALS

Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) degrades the speech centers in the brain's frontal cortex, leaving the patient eventually unable to speak.

Composition in Blue

Mr Fennell was diagnosed with an aggressive form of dementia called primary progressive aphasia.

The bizarre high-tech helmet that sent one man's dementia into ...

Clinically, the 14 patients had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementias, primary progressive aphasia, and corticobasal degeneration, said Dr.

Gene mutation tied to 5% of frontotemporal dementia

Diagnoses in demented patients without probable AD were dementia with Lewy bodies (n = 1), normal pressure hydrocephalus (n = 3), primary progressive aphasia (n = 3), and hippocampal sclerosis (n = 1).

Cerebrospinal Fluid A[[Beta].sub.42], Tau, and [F.sub.2]-Isoprostane ...

of Falmouth MA, a former Worcester lawyer, died at his home, surrounded by his family, on June 24, 2007 after complications from Primary Progressive Aphasia.

Attorney Gerald F. Madaus, Sr

Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois, America, have linked male sterilisation surgery to a neurological condition called primary progressive aphasia, or PPA, a condition similar to Alzheimer's and which affects 250,000 people in the UK.

Vasectomies increase risk of dementia; Good Health

One patient progressed to mixed dementia, and another converted to primary progressive aphasia.

Donepezil fails to stop progression to Alzheimer's: after 3 years, ...