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11557829

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-9-14
pubmed:abstractText
We describe RW, a patient who presented with writing difficulty that deteriorated over time. While her graphemes were typically legible, her writing was extremely slow, and her letters were written in an inconsistent and heterogeneous manner (e.g. each "a" in the word "banana" was produced in a different way). Her mental imagery of letters was impoverished, and she also produced allographic errors in her writing. She had some spelling errors as well, but many of these were due to omissions, perseverations, and motor operations. A positron emission tomography scan demonstrated superior parietal occipital and superior frontal defects that were more evident on the left than the right. Our observations are consistent with the hypothesis that RW has a deficit retrieving physical letter forms as manifested by her heterogeneous and slow production of letter forms. This disruption of grapheme retrieval is associated with interruption of a superior frontal-parietal system in the left hemisphere.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1355-4794
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
339-49
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-3-1
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Progressive peripheral agraphia.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283, USA. mgrossma@mail.med.upenn.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Case Reports, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't