Isolated thalamic agraphia with impaired grapheme formation and micrographia

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 258, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1528-1537

  Sakurai, Yasuhisa ^a   Yoshida, Yukinaga ^b   Sato, Koki ^a   Sugimoto, Izumi ^a   Mannen, Toru ^a  

^a MITSUI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alexia with agraphia; Apraxic agraphia; Chinese characters; Kana; Kanji; Pure agraphia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRAPHIA; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSARTHRIA; DYSGRAPHIA; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; GRAPHEME DEFORMITY; HAND TREMOR; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; ISOLATED THALAMIC AGRAPHIA; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MICROGRAPHIA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OFFICE WORKER; ORAL DYSESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PULVINAR; READING; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SLURRED SPEECH; THALAMUS; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; WESTERN APHASIA BATTERY; WRITING;

AGRAPHIA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 79961029135     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-011-5981-5     Document Type: Article

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