A Case of Anoxic Brain Injury Presenting with Agraphia of kanji in the Foreground
Case Reports in Neurology, 2017 A 63-year-old woman was hospitalized for rehabilitation from the aftereffects of an anoxic brain injury. In addition to a general cognitive decline, agraphia of kana and kanji was noted at the time of admission, which had advanced to agraphia which is ...
Yasutaka Kobayashi, Risa Yamauchi
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Description of interhemispheric disconnection syndrome in a patient with Marchiafava-Bignami disease [PDF]
, 2013 Interhemispheric disconnection syndrome (IDS), described by Sperry, Gazzaniga and Bogen, is characterized by the presence of visual and tactile anomia, absence of interhemispheric transference of unilateral somatosensory stimulation of both hands ...
Gómez, Pablo Guillermo +3 more
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Gerstmann syndrome in a young man: a case report [PDF]
Trakia Journal of Sciences, 2018 Gerstmann syndrome is a classical cerebral syndrome in neurology, named after Joseph Gerstmann, a Jewish Austrian-born American neurologist. Patients present with a tetrad of cognitive symptoms, including agraphia, acalculia, finger agnosia and left ...
Iv. Dimitrov +7 more
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Legal medical consideration of alzheimer’s disease patients’ dysgraphia and cognitive dysfunction: a 6 month follow up [PDF]
, 2016 Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the ability of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients to express intentions and desires, and their decision-making capacity.
Archer T +4 more
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Is the vision really impaired? A case report of word blindness
Kerala Journal of Ophthalmology, 2023 Word blindness or pure alexia refers to a condition that occurs due to lesions of the dominant occipitotemporal lobe, which is also known as the visual word form area (VWFA).
Sreelakshmi Prasanth +3 more
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Jean-Martin Charcot’s role in the 19th century study of music aphasia [PDF]
, 2013 Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–93) was a well-known French neurologist. Although he is widely recognized for his discovery of several neurological disorders and his research into aphasia, Charcot’s ideas about how the brain processes music are less well known.
Amy Graziano +63 more
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Case Reports in Neurology, 2018 We report a patient with phonological agraphia (selective impairment of kana [Japanese phonetic writing] nonwords) and acalculia (mental arithmetic difficulties) with impaired verbal short-term memory after a cerebral hemorrhage in the opercular part of ...
Yasuhisa Sakurai +3 more
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ERP correlates of word production before and after stroke in an aphasic patient [PDF]
, 2011 No abstract ...
Laganaro, Marina +4 more
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Neuroradiology, 1992 Two new cases of alexia without agraphia are presented. Pertinent clinical findings, anatomy, pathophysiology and differential diagnoses are reviewed. The importance of carefully examining the inferior portion of the left side of the splenium of the corpus callosum on CT and/or MR scans in patients who present with this clinical syndrome is stressed.
Quint, Douglas J., Gilmore, J. L.
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Complete abolition of reading and writing ability with a third ventricle colloid cyst: implications for surgical intervention and proposed neural substrates of visual recognition and visual imaging ability. [PDF]
, 2013 We report a rare case of a patient unable to read (alexic) and write (agraphic) after a mild head injury. He had preserved speech and comprehension, could spell aloud, identify words spelt aloud and copy letter features.
Barker, Lynne +3 more
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