Alexia is an acquired deficit in the ability to interpret written language; does not refer to those impairments (congenital or acquired early in life) which prevent the normal acquisition of reading skills (which are considered developmental dyslexia or simply dyslexia)

Central Alexia (Alexia with Agraphia): Central alexia, also known as deep or semantic alexia, is a more severe form where individuals have difficulty reading and writing words.

1999年6月14日 · Other names for this reading disorder are central alexia, literal alexia, letter blindness, and alexia with agraphia. The characterizing features of this alexia are the impairments of reading and writing: alexia and agraphia.

2024年3月4日 · Central alexia involves damage to the pathways connecting the visual word form area and the auditory area to the language centers of the brain, resulting in word blindness as well as the inability to spell out or recognize spelled-out words.

2013年1月1日 · Central alexia, also known as alexia with agraphia, occurs when reading is affected along with other aspects of language function (speaking, writing, or comprehension). Traditionally it has been split into three canonical types based on the type of errors different...

Alexia is an acquired disorder of reading subsequent to brain injury in a person who had previously been literate. There are several types of alexic disorders, which are characterized by the types of paralexias (incorrect production of words in oral reading) produced, and by the properties of words that tend to affect reading performance.

This type of alexia is also referred to as ‘central alexia.’ Pure alexia without agraphia is, in effect, a linguistic blindfolding. Patients cannot read, but they speak normally and can understand spoken language, even when words are dictated in spelled form.

Central Alexia or with agraphia. As in the previous case, we find an alteration and impossibility or great difficulty in the recognition of written words, but also in their production. In other words, in this case we find that the subject cannot read or write.

This book is a comprehensive review of the main acquired disorders of reading: hemianopic, pure and central alexia. The authors review the diagnostic criteria for each of the different types of disorder, and the efficacy of the therapeutic studies that have attempted to remediate them.

Central alexia (parietal-temporal alexia) is caused by damage to the angular gyrus, and/or infarction to the middle and left posterior cerebral arteries. This causes damage to pathways that connect the language centres of the brain to the visual and auditory word-forming areas.