A novel PET imaging approach has revealed distinct patterns of brain inflammation in patients with progressive apraxia of speech (PAOS), a rare neurodegenerative disorder that affects speech planning.

And again, Clark had massive atrophy in the frontal lobes, very disturbed. Paul Rand: Now you make the case in this part of the book where our legal system isn’t necessarily taking into account a ...

A third MRI showed atrophy of the cerebral cortex, with the bilateral frontal lobes, temporal lobe, and hippocampus increasingly affected.

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The frontal lobe damage can cause a range of symptoms related to decision-making, physical movements, and self-control. Frontal lobe damage impairs quality of life.

This is why as we age, we forget things or even why elders can be swindled by scammers, because their frontal lobes start to atrophy," the neuroscientist said.

PPA happens when certain parts of your brain atrophy (shrink). Most of the atrophy in PPA is on the left side of your brain in the frontal, temporal, or parietal lobes.