The language disorder of prion disease is characteristic of a dynamic aphasia and is rarely an isolated clinical feature

• Diana Caine,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations NHS National Prion Clinic, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, Department of Neuropsychology, NHNN, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, MRC Prion Unit at UCL, UCL Institute of Prion Diseases, London, United Kingdom

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• Akin Nihat,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations NHS National Prion Clinic, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, MRC Prion Unit at UCL, UCL Institute of Prion Diseases, London, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2892-1402

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• Philippa Crabb,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuropsychology, NHNN, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

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• Peter Rudge,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations NHS National Prion Clinic, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, MRC Prion Unit at UCL, UCL Institute of Prion Diseases, London, United Kingdom

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• Lisa Cipolotti,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuropsychology, NHNN, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

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• John Collinge,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations NHS National Prion Clinic, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, MRC Prion Unit at UCL, UCL Institute of Prion Diseases, London, United Kingdom

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• Simon Mead

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: s.mead@prion.ucl.ac.uk

  Affiliations NHS National Prion Clinic, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, MRC Prion Unit at UCL, UCL Institute of Prion Diseases, London, United Kingdom

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