TY - JOUR
T1 - Limb apraxia without aphasia from a left sided lesion in a right handed patient
AU - Selnes, Ola A.
AU - Pestronk, Alan
AU - Hart, John
AU - Gordon, Barry
PY - 1991
Y1 - 1991
N2 - A right handed man had a massive left middle cerebral artery stroke. CT and MRI revealed extensive destruction of both anterior and posterior areas typically associated with language. There was, however, no aphasia, but instead a marked limb apraxia, dyscalculia, dense right visual neglect, and anosognosia. These uncommon dissociations and associations support the hypothesis that cerebral control of motor function of the limbs is not fundamentally related to the motor control involved in speech, and the notion that handedness is related to laterality of motor control, and only accidentally to laterality of language control.
AB - A right handed man had a massive left middle cerebral artery stroke. CT and MRI revealed extensive destruction of both anterior and posterior areas typically associated with language. There was, however, no aphasia, but instead a marked limb apraxia, dyscalculia, dense right visual neglect, and anosognosia. These uncommon dissociations and associations support the hypothesis that cerebral control of motor function of the limbs is not fundamentally related to the motor control involved in speech, and the notion that handedness is related to laterality of motor control, and only accidentally to laterality of language control.
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U2 - 10.1136/jnnp.54.8.734
DO - 10.1136/jnnp.54.8.734
M3 - Article
C2 - 1719136
AN - SCOPUS:0025767287
VL - 54
SP - 734
EP - 737
JO - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
JF - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
SN - 0022-3050
IS - 8
ER -