agraphia in English

noun

inability to write as a result of a brain injury

Use "agraphia" in a sentence

1. It's called agraphia.

2. Post-stroke language disorders are frequent and include aphasia, Alexia, agraphia and acalculia

3. In cases with agraphia performance when writing dictation was superior with the paralysed arm.

4. In 175 aphasic patients with agraphia the course of the expressive oral and graphic performances was compared.

5. In a control group of aphasics with agraphia but without hemiplegia, these differences were not noted.

6. Syndrome classification in the group of aphasias showed a frequent occurrence of global aphasia, unclassified aphasia, anomic aphasia and agraphia.

7. So far, the disconnection explanation is the standard explanation of alexia without agraphia and the present case of verbal alexia may be regarded as being within this overall category.

8. In cases of left inferior parietal lesion, Acalculia is frequently associated with agraphia, finger agnosia, and left–right confusion in a tetrad of deficits called Gerstmann’s syndrome.

9. It is most common for Alexia to be accompanied by expressive aphasia (the ability to speak in sentences), and agraphia (the ability to write).

10. Higher visual disorders as discussed in this paper comprise visual hallucinations, palinopsy, hemineglect, Balint Holmes syndrome, prosopagnosia, visual objectagnosia, alexia without agraphia and cerebral achromatopsia.

11. Yasuhisa Sakurai, Emi Furukawa, Masanori Kurihara, Izumi Sugimoto 2018 , ' Frontal Phonological Agraphia and Acalculia with Impaired Verbal Short-Term Memory due to Left Inferior Precentral Gyrus Lesion', Case

12. Pure Alexia, also known as agnosic Alexia or Alexia without agraphia or pure word blindness, is one form of Alexia which makes up "the peripheral dyslexia" group

13. Alexia without agraphia (or pure Alexia) is an acquired reading disorder in which the patient is unable to read, despite preservation of other aspects of language such as spelling and writing

14. A 47-year-old man developed a persistent form of alexia without agraphia as the result of a haemorrhagic intracerebral lesion in the left inferior temporo-occipital region, due to the rupture of an arteriovenous malformation.

15. Refering to the differential diagnosis it can be finally said that one shoud only speak of aphasia, agraphia and alexia in childhood if the children could speek, write and read before the begin of the disease.

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17. Alexia without agraphia is a rare disorder that occurs after a posterior cerebral artery lesion of the dominant hemisphere with involvement of the splenium of the corpus collosum, characterized by the ability to write but inability to read.

18. ‘The clinical terms are Acalculia, for people like Signora Gaddi who lost her sense of numbers after a stroke, and dyscalculia for people who were born without numbers.’ ‘This reported Acalculia, specifically anarithmetria, is a feature atypical for the pure syndrome of alexia without agraphia.’

19. Neurolinguistic studies have questioned the unique character of alexia without agraphia as a clinical entity and, in contrast to the disconnection hypothesis, support the notion that the different varieties of alexia that are traditionally described represent distinctive syndromes, each with its own clinical features and pathophysiological basis.

20. Gerstmann syndrome is characterized by four primary symptoms: Dysgraphia/agraphia: deficiency in the ability to write Dyscalculia/acalculia: difficulty in learning or comprehending mathematics Finger agnosia: inability to distinguish the fingers on the hand Left-right disorientation This disorder is often associated with brain lesions in the dominant (usually left) hemisphere including the angular and supramarginal gyri (Brodmann area 39 and 40 respectively) near the temporal and parietal lobe junction.