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Thalamic semantic paralexia

Alexia may be divided into different subtypes, with semantic paralexia being particularly rare. A 57 year old woman with a discreet left thalamic stroke and semantic paralexia is described. Language evalution with the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Battery confirmed the semantic paralexia (deep alexia)....

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Autor principal: Hoffmann, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3349961/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22593810
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ni.2012.e6
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description Alexia may be divided into different subtypes, with semantic paralexia being particularly rare. A 57 year old woman with a discreet left thalamic stroke and semantic paralexia is described. Language evalution with the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Battery confirmed the semantic paralexia (deep alexia). Multimodality magnetic resonance imaging brain scanning excluded other cerebral lesions. A good recovery ensued.
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spelling pubmed-33499612012-05-16 Thalamic semantic paralexia Hoffmann, Michael Neurol Int Case Report Alexia may be divided into different subtypes, with semantic paralexia being particularly rare. A 57 year old woman with a discreet left thalamic stroke and semantic paralexia is described. Language evalution with the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Battery confirmed the semantic paralexia (deep alexia). Multimodality magnetic resonance imaging brain scanning excluded other cerebral lesions. A good recovery ensued. PAGEPress Publications 2012-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3349961/ /pubmed/22593810 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ni.2012.e6 Text en ©Copyright M. Hoffmann , 2012 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0). Licensee PAGEPress, Italy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3349961/
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