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Keller, Catharina and Meister, Ingo G. (2014). Agraphia caused by an infarction in Exner's area. J. Clin. Neurosci., 21 (1). S. 172 - 174. OXFORD: ELSEVIER SCI LTD. ISSN 1532-2653

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Abstract

Sigmund Exner postulated in 1881 that lesions of the base of the medial frontal gyrus could specifically produce writing impairments and attributed the writing centre to this area. We report two patients who suffered from strokes in this area. These patients suffered from writing disturbances comprising both omitted words within a sentence or badly written words, as well as aphasia. These patients, in line with prior reports, illustrate the crucial role of the Exner area at the base of the medial frontal gyrus for the cerebral writing network; we suggest that this region plays an important role for phoneme-grapheme conversions. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Keller, Catharina UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Meister, Ingo G. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-451037
DOI:	10.1016/j.jocn.2013.01.014
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Clin. Neurosci.
Volume:	21
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 172 - 174
Date:	2014
Publisher:	ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Place of Publication:	OXFORD
ISSN:	1532-2653
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Clinical Neurology; Neurosciences Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/45103