Braille alexia during visual hallucination in a blind man with selective calcarine atrophy

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 227-229

  Maeda, Kengo ^a,b   Yasuda, Hitoshi ^b   Haneda, Masakazu ^b   Kashiwagi, Atsunori ^b  

^a Horikawa Hospital   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Braille alexia; Calcarine atrophy; Hallucination; Retinal degeneration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAILLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETINA DEGENERATION; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

ATROPHY; BLINDNESS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DYSLEXIA; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SENSORY AIDS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0037395949     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2003.01105.x     Document Type: Article

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