1971/01/01 by Jonathan D. Rohrer, Martin N. Rossor, Jason D. Warren +1 · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Agraphia #Aphasia #Cognitive psychology #Dementia #Dyslexia #Epilepsy research and treatment #Geography #Jargon #Linguistics #Media, Journalism, and Communication History #Medicine #Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism #Pathology #Philosophy #Primary progressive aphasia #Psychology #Reading (process) #Spanish Culture and Identity #Spanish Literature and Culture Studies #Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment
paper · doi:10.1016/j.jns.2008.10.014
openalex publication_date 1971/01/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/23
The terms 'jargon aphasia' and 'jargon agraphia' describe the production of incomprehensible language containing frequent phonological, semantic or neologistic errors in speech and writing, respectively. Here we describe two patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) who produced neologistic jargon either in speech or writing. We suggest that involvement of the posterior superior temporal-inferior parietal region may lead to a disconnection between stored lexical representations and language output pathways leading to aberrant activation of phonemes in neologistic jargon. Parietal lobe involvement is relatively unusual in PPA, perhaps accounting for the comparative rarity of jargon early in the course of these diseases.