Difficulty finding words or the habit of substituting them with others that are similar semantically—such as knife and cutter—or phonologically—such as knife and wife—are usually the first symptoms of a type of dementia known as primary progressive aphasia (PPA). Another sign is a subtle difficulty in forming sentences, evidenced by verbal and nominal agreement errors that have never been made before, or reversal of word order, for example.
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