Pathology:
The study and diagnosis of disease through examination of organs, tissues, bodily fluids or whole bodies.
Pedigree:
In medicine, a family health history diagrammed with a set of international symbols to indicate the individuals in the family, their relationships to one another, those with a disease, etc.
Phonemic Paraphasias:
Errors involving use of the incorrect phoneme (“ped” instead of “bed”) or transposition of a phoneme (“efelant” for “elephant”).
Pick Bodies:
A specific type of cellular inclusion made up of the protein tau and seen in some people with frontotemporal dementia (FTD)
Pick’s Disease:
Another name for behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), which has also been called FTD
PPA (primary progressive aphasia):
A neurodegenerative disease marked by the progressive decline of language functions. PPA has now been split into three subgroups: semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA), non-fluent/agrammatic variant primary progressive aphasia (nfvPPA), and logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia (lvPPA).
Presenting Symptom:
The first change noticed by the patient or caregiver; the change that brings them into the doctor's office.