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[Associative visual agnosia--a case report].

N Kawahata·K Nagata·M Kawamura
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A 61 year-old right-handed man, a president of a company fell downstairs and was found unconscious on January 1, 1985. He was admitted to a hospital and he had been unresponsive for 10 days. As he recovered from the consciousness disturbance, he complained of difficulties in discrimination of common objects and in recognition of familiar faces. The patient was admitted to our hospital for the closer examination on July 29, 1985. There was no abnormality in the general physical examination on admission. Neurological examinations revealed no significant deficits except visual field disturbance. In the results of WAIS, the verbal IQ was 108, but the performance IQ was unmeasurable because of a presence of object agnosia. His spontaneous speech was fluent without paraphasia, perseveration or dysprosody. His auditory comprehension of spoken language and repetition were spared. Neuropsychological examinations revealed an impairment in the recent verbal memory, alexia, agraphia, object agnosia, color naming difficulty, prosopagnosia and visuospatial constructional disability. The patient exhibited three major neuropsychological characteristics. Firstly, the recognition of the objects which were presented by the photograph or line drawing was more severely impaired than the real objects. Secondly, the object naming difficulty was more pronounced in the presentation at an unusual angle than in the free presentation. Thirdly, the patient made poor performance in reproduction of the models by photographic presentation as compared with the presentation of the real models in the three-dimensional block construction test. The CT scan performed on January 4, 1985 demonstrated subcortical hematomas with surrounding edema in the temporo-occipital regions of both hemispheres.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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N Kawahata, K Nagata, M Kawamura. 1988. [Associative visual agnosia--a case report].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3395521/

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