Multimodal alexia: Neuropsychological mechanisms and implications for treatment

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3551-3562

  Kim, Esther S ^a   Rapcsak, Steven Z ^b,c   Andersen, Sarah ^a,b   Beeson, Pélagie M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN ARIZONA VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquired alexia; Alexia with agraphia; Global alexia; Kinesthetic treatment; Letter by letter reading; Pure alexia

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGRAPHIA; ALEXIA; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; KINESTHETIC TREATMENT; LEARNING STYLE; MALE; MULTIMODAL ALEXIA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; READING; SEMANTICS; SPELLING; THERAPY RESISTANCE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERBALIZATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WHITE MATTER; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION DISORDERS; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VOCABULARY; WRITING;

EID: 80755133737     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.09.007     Document Type: Article

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