Patient #23 presented with the acute onset of a right superior quadrantanopsia and alexia without agraphia. These features place the responsible lesion in the left occipital region. Alexia without ...

Word blindness is a rare neurological condition. (The medical term is "alexia without agraphia.") Although a patient can write and understand the spoken word, the patient is unable to read.

More than a hundred years ago, a neurologist in France named Joseph Jules Dejerine described a case of alexia without agraphia for the first time. Dejerine’s patient, a businessman who liked to ...

One 2013 study found that writing skills improved for people who had alexia with agraphia when they had multiple treatment sessions in which they read the same text over and over until they were ...

These calligraphic problems can occur without any difficulty in gripping the pen and in the absence of limb dyspraxia. Gerstmann syndrome is an uncommon tetrad of agraphia, an inability to name ...

Word blindness is a rare neurological condition. (The medical term is "alexia without agraphia.") Although a patient can write and understand the spoken word, the patient is unable to read.