Neurologist Explains Bruce Willis and Primary Progressive Aphasia

It was announced that American actor Bruce Willis has retired from acting due to aphasia. This video explains aphasia and a rare neurodegenerative disease called primary progressive aphasia (cause, epidemiology, prognosis). All sources of this video are public, and I am not making a diagnosis in any individual.

Sources:

Bruce Willis sold nearly $65M of property as his health declined: https://pagesix.com/2022/04/01/bruce-...

Clinical trials.gov site for primary progressive aphasia: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/re...

Vasectomy in Men With Primary Progressive Aphasia: https://journals.lww.com/cogbehavneur...
Typical and atypical pathology in primary progressive aphasia variants: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti....

Relapse in stuttering with the onset of primary progressive aphasia: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35359...

Semantic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia: Practical Recommendations for Treatment from 20 Years of Behavioural Research:    • How Much Does Race Affect Med School Admis...  

Primary progressive aphasia: clinicopathological correlations: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti....

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Dr. Brandon Beaber is a board-certified neurologist with subspecialty training in multiple sclerosis and other immunological diseases of the nervous system. He is a partner in the Southern California Permanente Medical Group and practices in Downey, California (South Los Angeles). He has several publications on MS epidemiology and has participated in clinical trials for MS therapeutics. You can follow him on twitter @Brandon_Beaber where he regularly posts about MS news and research.

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