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This study investigated the writing abilities of 15 brain-damaged patients, with and without drawing difficulties. The task was Chinese character copying. All brain-damaged patients had difficulties in copying characters; however, drawing-disable made this task much more difficult. We also found that the structure of Chinese character is an important influencing factor in character copying. The probability...
The present paper describes a case of severe acalculia derived from right-hemisphere lesion. The patient (LLS) did not merely present the symptoms expected after a right hemisphere lesion, such as a generic inability to deal with spatial material, or from other deficits, such as neglect; the patient was also unable to complete simple addition and multiplication but with preserved general verbal ability...
Up to now it has been revealed in the literature that the medial prefrontal cortex and the orbitofrontal cortex are the crucial neuroanatomical areas inducing spontaneous confabulation when impaired. However, there is no sufficient research to explain whether the two areas are both needed for the symptom. The possible reason for this is that the etiologies of most confabulators in the literature are...
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