Fusiform type alexia: Pure alexia for words in contrast to posterior occipital type pure alexia for letters

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 247, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 81-92

  Sakurai, Yasuhisa ^a   Yagishita, Atsuhiko ^a   Goto, Yasushi ^b   Ohtsu, Hiroshi ^c   Mannen, Toru ^a  

^a MITSUI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alexia with agraphia; Fusiform gyrus; Kana; Kanji; Letter by letter reading; Pure alexia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; WRITING;

AGED; ALEXIA, PURE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; HUMANS; JAPAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; READING; SPEECH; TEMPORAL LOBE; WRITING;

EID: 33746315221     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2006.03.019     Document Type: Article

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