PMID: 616562Jan 1, 1977Paper

A different form of "pure agraphia": syntactic writing errors in a patients with motor speech and movement disorders

Neurología, neurocirugía, psiquiatría
J H Ferguson, F Boller

Abstract

Three patients are described who displayed syntactic writing errors in combination with a motor speech disturbance and impaired motor limb function. Two of the patients had bulbar amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Agraphia appeared when verbal communication was no longer possible. Autopsy in one patient disclosed only lesions consistent with ALS. The third patient had palilalia and chorea and although not aphasic, his written language showed persistent syntactic errors. We hypothesize that the agraphia in these patients occurred because of the combination of disordered feedback from the motor speech apparatus and limbs.

Related Concepts

Related Feeds

Aphasia

Aphasia affects the ability to process language, including formulation and comprehension of language and speech, as well as the ability to read or write. Here is the latest research on aphasia.

Amyloid Lateral Sclerosis

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive nervous system disease associated with the death of neurons that control voluntary muscles. Discover the latest research on ALS here.

Related Papers

Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyū no shinpo
Mitsuru KawamuraKenji Ishihara
Movement Disorders : Official Journal of the Movement Disorder Society
Pierre-François PradatVincent Meininger
© 2021 Meta ULC. All rights reserved