The frontal and temporal lobes of your brain shrink when you have primary progressive aphasia. There are three types, or variants, of PPA. Subtypes of PPA help give families a shorthand for ...

"We wanted to share that our beloved Bruce has been experiencing some health issues and has recently been diagnosed with aphasia ... (SAH), a life-threatening type of stroke caused by bleeding ...

This type of aphasia can have different causes, but can result from frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), of which frontotemporal dementia is a variant, the National Institute of Health notes.