Medicina: Neuropsicologia cognitiva
| English |
| alexia with agraphia |
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| Attestation |
3
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| Part of speech |
Noun phrase
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| Definition |
Loss of the ability to read and write.
Loss of the ability to read and write that is frequently associated with left parietal lobe (angular gyrus) lesions. Informally referred to by some as “acquired illiteracy”.
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| Definition source |
Loring D.W. 1999
Loring D.W. 1999
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| Context |
Such disparities, along with the theoretical formulations necessary to account for them, provide an important source of evidence for studies of lexical representation. The terms AMNESIC (amnestic) aphasia, NOMINAL aphasia, and VERBAL AMNESIA are synonymous. Alexia with Agraphia Alexia with agraphia is extremely rare. More often than not, patients with both alexia and agraphia have signs of Wernicke’s aphasia or transcortical sensory aphasia. In the absence of aphasia, they generally have signs of parietal lobe dysfunction. Naturally, the diagnosis of alexia with agraphia applies only when the disturbances of reading and writing predominate over the aphasic or parietal symptomatology.
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| Context source |
Sarno 1991
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| Subject field |
Aphasia
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| Sub-field (level 1) |
Aphasiology
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| Sub-field (level 2) |
Clinical neuropsychology
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| Sub-field (level 3) |
Aphasic syndromes
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| Generic concept |
Pure form
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| Related concept |
Pure alexia, Pure agraphia, Pure word deafness, Anarthria
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| it |
Alessia con agrafia
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| Reliability code |
3
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