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“Pure alexia” without hemianopia or colour anomia
Author(s) -
Leegaard O. F.,
Riis J. Ø.,
Andersen G.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
acta neurologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.967
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1600-0404
pISSN - 0001-6314
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1988.tb03693.x
Subject(s) - splenium , corpus callosum , occipital lobe , disconnection , dyslexia , psychology , lesion , agraphia , reading (process) , audiology , medicine , neuroscience , magnetic resonance imaging , radiology , psychiatry , white matter , political science , law
‐ We report a case of “pure alexia” without hemianopia or colour anomia, caused by a small subcortical haematoma in the dorso‐lateral part of the occipital lobe, not affecting the splenium of the corpus callosum. It is argued that the reading disorder was due to a visual‐verbal disconnection in spite of the fact that this typically is caused by a lesion in the medial part of the left occipital lobe including the splenium.