Method: We examined the writing impairments of four dysgraphia patients from parietal lobe
lesions using a special writing test with 100 character kanji (Japanese morphograms) and …

Pure apraxic agraphia is a condition in which motor writing is impaired but limb praxis and
nonmotor writing (typing, anagram letters) are preserved. This condition is believed to result …

We present two patients with frontal pure agraphia more impaired for either kanji or kana
(two separate writing systems for the Japanese language). The lesion of patient 1 …

A 67 year old Japanese male patient had pure agraphia after a haemorrhage in the left
superior parietal lobule. He developed difficulty in letter formation but showed no linguistic …

Objective: To clarify whether agraphia or alexia occurs in lesions of the left posterior middle
temporal gyrus. Methods: We assessed the reading and writing abilities of two patients with …

Apraxic agraphia is a peripheral writing disorder caused by neurological damage. It induces
a lack or loss of access to the motor engrams that plan and programme the graphomotor …

Afferent dysgraphia is an acquired writing deficit characterized by deletions and duplications
of letters and strokes. The commonly accepted interpretation states that afferent dysgraphia …

We report a patient who, after a left parieto-occipital lesion, showed alexia and selective
dysgraphia for uppercase letters. He showed preserved oral spelling, associated with …

Abstract A 56-year-old right-handed man with 10 years of schooling, who suddenly
developed writing problems, is described. An MRI revealed a left posterior cortico …

A 52-year-old man with atypical cerebral dominance (left-handed for writing but mixed
handedness for other tasks) suffered an extensive right hemisphere stroke, resulting in a …