Cognitive and neuroanatomical assessment of alexia and agraphia in Japanese: implications for the European languages [PDF]
Frontiers in Human NeuroscienceThe Japanese language has a unique writing system that consists of kanji (morphograms, derived from Chinese characters) and kana (phonograms, a simplified form of kanji representing syllables).
Yasuhisa Sakurai, Yasuhisa Sakurai
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Thalamic alexia with agraphia [PDF]
Neurology International, 2012 Alexia with agraphia is defined as an acquired impairment affecting reading and writing ability. It can be associated with aphasia, but can also occur as an isolated entity. This impairment has classically been associated with a left angular gyrus lesion
Fábio Henrique de Gobbi Porto +9 more
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Gerstmann Syndrome in an Elderly Patient: A Case Report Presented with a Complete Tetrad of Symptoms [PDF]
MedicinaGerstmann syndrome, alternatively recognized as angular gyrus syndrome, epitomizes a complex cognitive impairment that has ignited substantial scholarly discourse within the realms of neurology and neuropsychology.
Corneliu Toader +6 more
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Case Report: Distinctive features of cognitive dysfunction and amelioration by antiseizure medication in neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease [PDF]
Frontiers in NeuroscienceAimNeuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID) is a rare neurodegenerative disease. We investigated a role of nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) in cognitive dysfunction in pathologically confirmed NIID.
Hiroya Ohara +9 more
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A novel approach in quantifying writing errors in Arabic‐speaking patients with Alzheimer's disease [PDF]
Alzheimers DementAbstract Background To our knowledge, few studies have been conducted in Arabic regarding cognitive‐linguistic characterization of acquired written language disorders (agraphia) in neurodegenerative diseases, while the majority of them has been carried out in English and Indo‐European languages.
Taiebine M +5 more
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Behavioural Neurology, 1995 We report a right-handed man who developed selective Kana (phonogram) agraphia following an infarct in the non-dominant right cerebral hemisphere. His ability for comprehension, reading and writing of Kanji (ideogram) was unaffected.
K. Abe, R. Yokoyama, T. Yanagihara
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Agraphia due to Conversion Disorder (Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder) in an 8-year-old boy: a case report [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryConversion disorder, a psychiatric condition characterized by neurological symptoms without organic etiology, is rare in children but can significantly impair functioning.
Nhu Minh Hang Tran +2 more
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Cortical ribbon sign: Initial sign of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. [PDF]
J Gen Fam MedJournal of General and Family Medicine, Volume 26, Issue 4, Page 372-374, July 2025.
Nakamichi S +4 more
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Clinical presentations of atypical forms of Alzheimer's Disease and its correlates with functional imaging: the importance of early detection, a series of cases [PDF]
Alzheimers DementAbstract Background The prevalence of Dementia in Latin America countries is growing and early presentations of Alzheimer´s Diseases with atypical forms are even more frequently. As the clinical presentation of these variants shows an overlap with other dementia disorders, the differential diagnosis is often challenging.
Mariani F.
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Allographic Agraphia for Single letters [PDF]
Behavioural Neurology, 2012 The case is reported of a patient (PS) who, following acute encephalitis with residual occipito-temporal damage, showed a selective deficit in writing cursive letters in isolation, but no difficulty to write cursive-case words and non-words. Notably, he was able to recognize the same allographs he could not write and to produce both single letters and ...
Alina Menichelli +3 more
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