Pure Alexia in Japanese and Agraphia Without Alexia in Kanji: The Ability Dissociation Between Reading and Writing in Kanji vs Kana

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 1988, Pages 1157-1159

  Mochizuki, Hiroshi ^a   Ohtomo, Ruriko ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRAPHIA; ALEXIA; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; WRITING;

AGRAPHIA; APTITUDE; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DYSLEXIA, ACQUIRED; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; READING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WRITING;

EID: 0023729740     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1988.00520340111020     Document Type: Article

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