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[Anosognosic graphomimia: an uncommon variety of hypergraphia in right sylvian infarction]
Abstract:
Following a massive infarction in the territory of the right sylvian artery, a right-handed patient with a left hemiplegia and anosognosia, developed a peculiar hypergraphia. It consisted of an inappropriate and permanent writing behaviour, disappearing only during sleep. Space-constructional components of writing were severely disturbed. Graphemes were poorly formed. The graphic disturbances were different from hypergraphia previously described in stroke patients who produced linguistically correct but semantically loose writing. They were also different from graphomania reported in a case of fronto-callosal glioma. Our case of anosognosic hypergraphia suggests a sudden loss of inhibition of writing activity of the left hemisphere. The term graphomimia is proposed to distinguish this writing behaviour from the cases of hypergraphia previously reported and from graphomania.
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