Brain of Control vs. Person with PPA (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Brain of Control vs. Person with PPA

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A person with primary progressive aphasia activates part of the right-hand side of their brain (shown in blue) to decipher a sentence, whereas the normal person (left-hand image) does not.

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Aneta Kielar, University of Arizona

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