Pure Alexia: A Combined First-Person Account and Neuropsychological Investigation
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Pure Alexia: A Combined First-Person Account and Neuropsychological Investigation. / Hansen, Klaus; Starrfelt, Randi.
In: Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Vol. 32, No. 4, 2019, p. 268-277.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research
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T1 - Pure Alexia: A Combined First-Person Account and Neuropsychological Investigation
AU - Hansen, Klaus
AU - Starrfelt, Randi
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Pure alexia is an acquired reading disorder where patients’ ability to read words and text is severely impaired, while their writing is left unaffected. Patients with pure alexia typically recover some reading ability over time, although most never regain their premorbid reading skills. A few studies have reported some behavioral and imaging correlates of such remission; however, little is known about the patients’ experience of their reading impairment. This paper contains a first-person account of pure alexia, describing the first author’s (K.H.) experience of his remission from severe reading problems immediately following a posterior cerebral artery stroke to the mild pure alexia characterizing his reading ability today. To provide a context for this account, we also present neuropsychological and reading data obtained from K.H. at several time points during his recovery.
AB - Pure alexia is an acquired reading disorder where patients’ ability to read words and text is severely impaired, while their writing is left unaffected. Patients with pure alexia typically recover some reading ability over time, although most never regain their premorbid reading skills. A few studies have reported some behavioral and imaging correlates of such remission; however, little is known about the patients’ experience of their reading impairment. This paper contains a first-person account of pure alexia, describing the first author’s (K.H.) experience of his remission from severe reading problems immediately following a posterior cerebral artery stroke to the mild pure alexia characterizing his reading ability today. To provide a context for this account, we also present neuropsychological and reading data obtained from K.H. at several time points during his recovery.
KW - pure alexia
KW - recovery
KW - posterior cerebral artery stroke
KW - alexia without agraphia
U2 - 10.1097/WNN.0000000000000214
DO - 10.1097/WNN.0000000000000214
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 31800487
VL - 32
SP - 268
EP - 277
JO - Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology
JF - Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology
SN - 1543-3633
IS - 4
ER -
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