Word-finding difficulty

Causes

• Cerebrovascular disorders
• Corticobasal degeneration (CBD)
• Motor neurone disease (MND)
• Vascular dementia
• Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD)
• Primary progressive aphasia (PPA)
• Alzheimer’s disease (AD)
• Parkinson’s disease (PD)
• Multiple sclerosis (MS)
• Post-polio syndrome (PPS)

Presentations

Types of speech errors

Clinical assessment

References

1. Rohrer JD, Knight WD, Warren JE, Fox NC, Rossor MN, Warren JD. Word-finding difficulty: a clinical analysis of the progressive aphasia. Brain 2008; 131:8-38.
2. Josephs KA, Duffy JR, Strand EA, et al. Characterizing a neurodegenerative syndrome: primary progressive apraxia of speech. Brain 2012; 135:1522-1536.
3. Hedman E, Hartelius L, Saldert C. Word-finding difficulties in Parkinson's disease: complex verbal fluency, executive functions and other influencing factors. Int J Lang Commun Disord 2022; 57:565-577. 
4. Brandstadter R, Fabian M, Leavitt VM, et al. Word-finding difficulty is a prevalent disease-related deficit in early multiple sclerosis. Mult Scler 2020; 26:1752-1764. 
5. Bruno RL, Zimmerman JR. Word finding difficulty as a post-polio sequelae. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 2000; 79:343-348.
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