There's also a Netflix documentary called The Vow coming out soon that's about NXIVM.
https://twitter.com/sparrowmedia/status/1304507598704607233
Dan Rather
@DanRather
I yearn for the day when someone says to me, “did you see…” and I wait for their movie recommendation and not being forced to confront the latest insanity on Twitter.
6:43 PM · Sep 12, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1304958932482367488
Title: Finding words: Speech-language intervention in primary progressive aphasia
Abstract: Speech-language impairment may be a prominent or primary feature of neurodegenerative disease (Gorno-Tempini et al., 2011). Although many studies document the benefits of behavioral intervention for aphasia caused by stroke, there is a relative paucity of research examining the benefits of treatment for patients with progressive aphasia (primary progressive aphasia (PPA) or language-prominent Alzheimer’s disease/MCI). I will present findings from several studies (Henry et al., 2018; 2019; Dial et al., 2019; Grasso et al., 2017) as well as additional data documenting the immediate and long-term benefits of treatment for speech and language in PPA and language-prominent AD/MCI. In addition to restitutive interventions, I will discuss interventions focused on compensatory adaptations such as augmentative and alternative communication and communication partner training. Results to-date document robust treatment effects immediately post-treatment, as well as maintenance of gains for the majority of participants, many up to one-year post-treatment. Generalization to untrained targets and tasks was observed for many participants, but was more pronounced for some clinical variants and treatment types. Neuroimaging data indicate that treatment-induced recovery of function is mediated by relatively spared regions within language and memory networks as well as language network homologues in the right hemisphere. Taken together, these findings offer compelling evidence in support of speech-language intervention for patients with PPA and other language-prominent dementia syndromes.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249712676_Frontotemporal_dementia_sociality_and_identity_Comparing_adult-child_and_caregiver-frontotemporal_dementia_interactions
Frontotemporal dementia, sociality, and identity: Comparing adult-child and caregiver-frontotemporal dementia interactions
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects the prefrontal cortex, and impairs various aspects relevant to social cognition. Such impairments can emerge as a visible phenomenon in social interaction and therefore can have very real consequences for those who interact with the afflicted (Goodwin, 2003). In this article, I examine how attitudes toward FTD patients are indexed through speech features employed by their interlocutors. I focus on three different speech features typically employed by adults and directed towards subordinates or children: directives, let’s/we framed sequences, and initiation-response-evaluation sequences. These forms are used as strategies to affect and guide FTD patient behaviors, and index how FTD patients are socially constructed as ‘child-like’ and in need of assistance and guidance though not necessarily warranted. Thus, FTD patients may be subject to a diminished status as a result of their social impairments.
Argentina’s early contributions to the understanding of frontotemporal lobar degeneration
Over a 100 years have passed since Pick’s description of what is now termed frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). FTLD is a topic of intense current research interest yet some relevant contributions by non-English speaking authors have received little attention, which makes the history of FTLD research incomplete. In the hopes of filling some of the gaps in the history of FTLD research, the present article introduces fundamental work carried out in Argentina during the first half of the 20th century by Christfried Jakob and Braulio A. Moyano. Jakob’s neurophilosophy, as well as his empirical descriptions on dementia and theoretic insights into the role of the frontal lobes are highlighted. Moyano’s works on frontotemporal dementia (FTD), specifically concerning language deficits and the concept of focal pathology in Alzheimer disease presenting with progressive aphasia are introduced. These early contributions are examined in the light of the current knowledge on FTLD, highlighting some of the authors’ early original contributions, as well as their misconceptions. These authors remain largely unknown despite the fact that their contributions were fundamental in kindling interest in behavioral neurology in Latin America, which continues to this day.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010945210001528
Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging
Volume 30, 2018 - Issue 3
“I don’t know what to do. Pray I guess.”: Faith and coping with frontotemporal dementia
Anna Dina L. Joaquin &Andrea W. Mates
Pages 251-267 | Published online: 09 Apr 2018
This case study uses participant observation ethnography to provide an in-depth view of what assumptions undergird the religious coping strategies of a caregiver wife whose husband was diagnosed with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). Transcripts of interactions and narratives allow for thick descriptions of not just the family’s religiousness, but also the caregiver’s revealed understanding of her Catholic faith. This understanding not only forms her responses to daily stresses but also to gives hope and meaning to the larger experience of managing her husband’s decline. Finally, recommendations are made to clinicians and caregivers.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15528030.2018.1452831