Alexia for Braille following bilateral occipital stroke in an early blind woman

NeuroReport

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 237-240

  Hamilton, Roy ^a   Keenan, Julian Paul ^a   Catala, Maria ^c   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a,b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Blindness; Braille alexia; Cross modal plasticity; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAILLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; STROKE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0033967684     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200002070-00003     Document Type: Article

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