{"id":22108,"date":"2016-02-14T21:41:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T05:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/rare-brain-disorder-not-alzheimers-may-be-cause-of-loss-for-words"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:23:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:23:39","slug":"rare-brain-disorder-not-alzheimers-may-be-cause-of-loss-for-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/rare-brain-disorder-not-alzheimers-may-be-cause-of-loss-for-words","title":{"rendered":"Rare brain disorder, not Alzheimer\u2019s, may be cause of loss for words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rare-brain-disorder-not-alzheimers-may-be-cause-of-loss-for-words.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 A mysterious brain disorder can be confused with early Alzheimer\u2019s disease although it isn\u2019t robbing patients of their memories but of the words to talk about them.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called primary progressive aphasia, and researchers said Sunday they\u2019re finding better ways to diagnose the little-known syndrome. That will help people whose thoughts are lucid but who are verbally locked in to get the right kind of care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m using a speech device to talk to you,\u201d Robert Voogt of Virginia Beach, Virginia, said by playing a recording from a phone-sized assistive device at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. \u201cI have trouble speaking, but I can understand you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2016\/02\/15\/world\/science-health-world\/rare-brain-disorder-not-alzheimers-may-cause-loss-words\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow WASHINGTON \u2013 A mysterious brain disorder can be confused with early Alzheimer\u2019s disease although it isn\u2019t robbing patients of their memories but of the words to talk about them. It\u2019s called primary progressive aphasia, and researchers said Sunday they\u2019re finding better ways to diagnose the little-known syndrome. That will help people whose thoughts are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51026,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22108\/revisions\/51026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}