BECLA, a new assessment battery for acquired deficits of language: Normative data from Quebec-French healthy younger and older adults

Macoir, Joël; Gauthier, Caroline; Jean, Catherine.; Potvin, Olivier

doi:10.1016/j.jns.2016.01.004

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“…At T2, a decrease was observed at the MoCA score and new difficulties arose in nonverbal tasks (eg, drawing of the clock, attention). At that time, ND's performance was affected in the 62 BORB, 63 Rey-Osterrieth figure, 64 Stroop test, 65 Trail Making Test, 66 MEC, 67 PPTT, 68 BECLA, 69 Boston Naming Test. 70 object recognition subtest of the Birmingham Object Recognition Battery, indicating visual object agnosia (ie, difficulty in recognizing/identifying objects).…”

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Dysexecutive Symptoms in Primary Progressive Aphasia: Beyond Diagnostic Criteria

Macoir

Lavoie

Laforce

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J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol

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Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a heterogeneous neurodegenerative condition in which the most prominent clinical feature is language difficulties. Other cognitive domains have been described to remain unaffected at the early stages of the disease and, therefore, excluded from diagnostic criteria. However, we show in this article that executive function (EF) disorders may be present in the 3 variants (nonfluent/agrammatic, logopenic, and semantic) of PPA. We also illustrate changes in language and EF by means of a 3-year behavioral and neuroimaging longitudinal study of a patient suffering from the semantic variant of PPA. This review provides an update on current knowledge of PPA, suggesting that dysexecutive symptoms may be encountered in the 3 PPA variants, in their early phases and/or in more advanced stages, when atrophy extends to adjacent brain areas.

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“…c, cutoff score; WNR, within normal range; Z, Z-score; p, percentile; sc, scaled score. a A score below the norm or cutoff point. MoCA test, 61 WAIS-III, 62 BORB, 63 Rey-Osterrieth figure, 64 Stroop test, 65 Trail Making Test, 66 MEC, 67 PPTT, 68 BECLA, 69 Boston Naming Test. 70 …”

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Dysexecutive Symptoms in Primary Progressive Aphasia: Beyond Diagnostic Criteria

Macoir

Lavoie

Laforce

et al. 2017

J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol

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“…-Mild to moderate word production and anomia difficulties measured with a picture-naming task (Boston Naming Test) 33 and phonological, semantic and free fluency tasks (MEC Protocol); 34 -Impaired verbal and non-verbal single-word comprehension, assessed with visual and oral word-picture matching tasks (BECLA battery) 35 and semantic association of pictures (pyramids and palm trees test); 36 -Spared repetition (TEFREP) 37 and absence of apraxia of speech (PENO). 38 Some of the patients also had impaired object recognition (object decision and object matching subtests, BORB battery) 39 with or without surface dyslexia (regular and irregular word and pseudoword reading test), 40 while others presented with surface dyslexia with unimpaired object recognition.…”

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White Matter Damage in the Semantic Variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia

Bouchard

Wilson

Laforce

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Can. J. Neurol. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:Background: The semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia (svPPA) is a form of dementia, mainly featuring language impairment, for which the extent of white matter (WM) damage is less described than its associated grey matter (GM) atrophy. Our study aimed to characterise the extent of this damage using a sensitive and unbiased approach. Methods: We conducted a between-group study comparing 10 patients with a clinical diagnosis of svPPA, recruited between 2011 and 2014 at a tertiary reference centre, with 9 cognitively healthy, age-matched controls. From diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data, we extracted fractional anisotropy (FA) values using a tract-based spatial statistics approach. We further obtained GM volumetric data using the Freesurfer automated segmentation tool. We compared both groups using non-parametric Wilcoxon rank-sum tests, correcting for multiple comparisons. Results: Demographic data showed that patients and controls were comparable. As expected, clinical data showed lower results in svPPA than controls on cognitive screening tests. Tractography showed impaired diffusion in svPPA patients, with FA mostly decreased in the longitudinal, uncinate, cingulum and external capsule fasciculi. Volumetric data show significant atrophy in svPPA patients, mostly in the left entorhinal, amygdala, inferior temporal, middle temporal, superior temporal and temporal pole cortices, and bilateral fusiform gyri. Conclusions: This syndrome appears to be associated not only with GM but also significant WM degeneration. Thus, DTI could play a role in the differential diagnosis of atypical dementia by specifying WM damage specific to svPPA.

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“…Les niveaux lexicaux, sémantiques et syntaxiques ne semblent pas touchés (TDQ-60 (Macoir, Beaudoin et Bluteau, 2008); PPTT (Callahan et al, 2010;Howard & Patterson, 1992); MT-86 (Nespoulous et al, 1986)). L'expression écrite semble préservée (BECLA (Macoir et al, 2016)). Bien qu'une certaine lenteur d'exécution soit notée en écriture, celle-ci n'est pas significative.…”

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“…La compréhension orale et écrite de GS est adéquate et fonctionnelle au niveau des mots isolés et des phrases (MT-86 (Béland, Lecours, Giroux & Bois, 1993)). En production orale (répétition de mots et non-mots, lecture à voix haute de mots et de phrase, évocation lexicale), les performances linguistiques sont dans la norme (MEC (Joanette, Ska et Côté, 2004); BECLA (Macoir, Gauthier, Jean, & Potvin, 2016); MT-86 (Béland & Lecours, 1990; Nespoulous, Lecours & Lafond, 1986)), bien qu’affectées par des atteintes de la parole. Les niveaux lexicaux, sémantiques et syntaxiques ne semblent pas touchés (TDQ-60 (Macoir, Beaudoin et Bluteau, 2008); PPTT (Callahan et al, 2010; Howard & Patterson, 1992); MT-86 (Nespoulous et al, 1986)).…”

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L’apport critique de l’évaluation de la communication dans le diagnostic précoce de l’apraxie primaire progressive de la parole

Bouvier

Monetta

Laforce³

et al. 2017

Can. J. Aging

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Primary progressive apraxia of speech (PPAoS) is a neurodegenerative syndrome characterized by speech apraxia at its onset; as it progresses, it often evolves into total mutism. Even though this syndrome is increasingly recognized, its early differential diagnostic is still complex. The objective of this study was to illustrate why a fine evaluation of speech and language is essential for the differential diagnosis of PPAoS. This longitudinal case study presents the progression of a PPAoS patient over a period of 5 years. Periodic neurological and speech-language assessments were carried out to follow the progression of neurological, memory, language and speech symptoms. The different diagnostic labels established over time were also reported. The evolution of the patient's communication profile was characterized by a preservation of language components and episodic memory, in parallel with a progressive deterioration of speech which gradually reduced intelligibility, and was associated with signs of spasticity, resulting in a complete anarthria. This case study sheds light upon the evolution of a patient with PPAoS. A better understanding of the clinical profile and progression of PPAoS is necessary in order to improve early diagnosis and adequate care for these patients.

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BECLA, a new assessment battery for acquired deficits of language: Normative data from Quebec-French healthy younger and older adults

Cited by 36 publications

References 16 publications

Dysexecutive Symptoms in Primary Progressive Aphasia: Beyond Diagnostic Criteria

Dysexecutive Symptoms in Primary Progressive Aphasia: Beyond Diagnostic Criteria

White Matter Damage in the Semantic Variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia

L’apport critique de l’évaluation de la communication dans le diagnostic précoce de l’apraxie primaire progressive de la parole

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