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Alexia without agraphia associated with right occipital lesion.

Author(s) -

Genjiro Hirose,

Taichi Kin,

E Murakami

Publication year - 1977

Publication title -

journal of neurology neurosurgery and psychiatry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.391

H-Index - 206

eISSN - 1468-330X

pISSN - 0022-3050

DOI - 10.1136/jnnp.40.3.225

Subject(s) - agraphia , dyslexia , right hemisphere , lesion , right handed , medicine , audiology , psychology , cerebral hemisphere , anatomy , neuroscience , reading (process) , pathology , philosophy , nuclear physics , neutrino , linguistics , physics

A 78 year old, right handed man developed the syndrome of alexia without agraphia due to a right occipital thrombotic stroke. The cerebral dominance test strongly suggests that his right hemisphere is dominant. This is believed to be the first case of alexia without agraphia secondary to a right occipital lesion in a right handed person.

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