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The study is designed to determine the relationship between structural and functional changes in the brain on imaging and progression of speech and language, neurological and neuropsychological features in patients with neurodegenerative apraxia of speech (AOS).


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Apraxia of Speech (AOS) is a disorder of speech motor planning and/or programming that affects the production of speech, characterized by slow speaking rate, abnormal prosody and distorted sound substitutions, additions, repetitions and prolongations, sometimes accompanied by groping, and trial and error articulatory movements. While AOS is commonly associated with vascular insults, it can be the predominant manifestation of neurodegenerative disease. Apraxia of speech can be the only manifestation of a neurodegenerative disorder. However, AOS very often co-occurs with aphasia, particularly a non-fluent aphasia (NFA) of the Broca's type; a language disorder, typically characterized by agrammatic, telegraphic or truncated spoken language, often accompanied by similar difficulties with written language. Patients with neurodegenerative AOS can have varying degrees of NFA, with the aphasia considered more severe than the AOS in some patients, but with the AOS dominant in others. It is extremely rare to have a patient that presents with NFA that does not also have AOS. Patients with isolated AOS can develop NFA over time, although in some patients the AOS remains isolated for as many as 8-10 years. Patients with AOS can also develop dysarthria and other non-speech motor symptoms, such as extrapyramidal features, postural instability, extra ocular eye movement abnormalities and limb apraxia. Cognitive impairment can also develop, although is rarely an early feature of the disease. The syndrome is progressive with many patients eventually becoming mute. Studies have shown that patients with neurodegenerative AOS can be pathologically heterogeneous, with some cases showing deposition of the microtubule associated protein tau, while others have deposition of the TAR DNA binding protein of 43kDa (TDP-43). Typical tau pathologies that are observed include corticobasal degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and Pick's disease. Clinical features are currently unhelpful in predicting the underlying pathology in these cases, although there is a suggestion that cases with isolated or dominant AOS may be more likely to show tau pathology, particularly PSP. This project will be the first to assess longitudinal multi-modality neuroimaging in subjects with neurodegenerative AOS. It will allow us to assess all aspects of disease progression in these subjects, including changes on neuroimaging, speech and language, neurological, and neuropsychological assessments, to get a complete picture of dysfunction and progression in these subjects. This project will also be the first to apply DTI and the recently developed technique of resting state fMRI to the study of this disease. These techniques are of great current interest to the field and provide, for the first time, a way of assessing underlying functional and structural connectivity across the brain. Both techniques provide important information about how disease progresses through the brain tissue and have huge potential to be important future biomarkers of many different neurodegenerative diseases. ;


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NCT number NCT01818661
Study type Interventional
Source Mayo Clinic
Contact Sarah Boland, CCRP
Phone 507-284-3863
Email boland.sarah@mayo.edu
Status Recruiting
Phase Phase 4
Start date July 1, 2018
Completion date June 2028

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