Alexia without agraphia is a disconnection syndrome that typically involves damage to the occipital lobe, with splenium involvement, in the dominant left hemisphere. We describe an exceptionally rare case of a right-handed individual displaying this deficit following a right-sided occipital stroke. A ...
III.A.Pure Alexia The syndrome ofpure alexiawas first described in the 19th century. The most striking feature of thisreading disorderis that the patient retains the ability to write and spell; thus, purealexiais also known as alexia withoutagraphia. Patients who have alexia without agraphia ...
A patient who developed pure alexia without agraphia following a stroke is described. An infarction of the left occipital pole was demonstrated by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The literature on this rare syndrome is reviewed, and the localisation of damage in relation to the clinical findings...
Poster 483 Alexia Without Agraphia With Cursive Handwriting Preservation: A Case ReportDisclosures R. Patel, none. Patients or Programs A 62-year-old man presenting with expressive aphasia. Program Description A 62-year-old man developed a severe headache, followed by difficulty speaking. He was ...
Pure alexia, or alexia without agraphia (due to the preservation of the ability to write) is a condition where patients are unable to read written words, or even recognize single letters (Coltheart 1998; Miozzo & Caramazza, 1998). However, if words are spelled out loud, they have little ...
Here, we report the case of a previously-healthy 63-year-old man with the acute onset of alexia without other significant impairments. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain revealed a small ischemic stroke localized to the inferior left occipitotemporal cortex, corresponding to the ...
Alexia without agraphia is readily recognized in its pure (without other neurologic findings) but rare form. However, this deficit is more common when asso... RL Marks,T Devito - 《Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation》 被引量: 13发表: 1987年 The functional anatomy of single-word ...
We report a patient with a left medial occipital infarction who showed pure alexia. She often could not read a Kana letter even after she traced the letter by her finger with complete letter form and correct stroke order. We examined thi... Shotaro,Murata,Hiroshi,... - 《Higher Brain Func...
Alexia without agraphia in a post COVID-19 patient with left-hemisphere ischemic strokeCOVID-19ISCHEMIC strokeSTROKEAGRAPHIADYSLEXIASTROKE patientsNeurological Sciences -doi:10.1007/s10072-021-05211-4Konstantinos PriftisHuman Inspired Technology Center, University of Padua, Padua, ItalyMassimo Prior...
Alexia without agraphiaVisual word form areaAgraphiaDyslexiaDysgraphiaReadingThe visual word form area (VWFA) is a region in the posterior left occipitotemporal cortex adjacent to the fusiform gyrus hypothesized to mediate word recognition. Evidence supporting the role of this area in reading comes ...