OBJECTIVE: To clarify the behavioral differences between patients with pure alexia from different lesions. METHODS: Two patients with pure alexia caused by damage to the fusiform or posterior occipita...
Reports of five patients whose deep alexic reading all evolved into phonological alexia in a similar fashion point to the hypothesis that deep alexia and phonological alexia represent different points...
Pure alexia is a rare disorder usually caused by an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke. We describe a case of pure alexia due to nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE). This 57-year-old man presented in ...
OBJECTIVE: To characterize reading impairments caused by lesions in the posterior occipital cortices. METHODS: We gave six patients with these lesions reading and writing tests and located a critical ...
A 47-year-old man developed a persistent form of alexia without agraphia as the result of a haemorrhagic intracerebral lesion in the left inferior temporo-occipital region, due to the rupture of an ar...
This study was concerned with a model for kanji reading applicable in a non-Japanese population of aphasics. The experimental task required aphasic subjects to match animals with their footprints, a t...
A 60-year-old right-handed Japanese man with infarction of the left occipital lobe and inferior temporal gyrus initially showed pure alexia in kana and kanji. Later, though pure alexia in kana persist...