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Kazutaka Sakamoto1,2, Kyungshil Kim3, Ryota Kobayashi1
1Department of Psychiatry, Yamagata University School of Medicine, 2-2-2 Iidanishi, Yamagata City, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan.
Clinical Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
|May 23, 2024
Abstract:
•A 77-year-old right-handed man experienced an infarct in the right midbrain.•Ipsilesional progressive micrographia occurred after the midbrain infarct.•Micrographia improved when the patient wrote as if practicing Japanese calligraphy.•Further studies should confirm the utility of Japanese calligraphy in such cases.

