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We read with great interest the review concerning mirror writing by Schott and Schott,¹ in which they commented on a particularly high incidence of left-handed mirror writing among Japanese, whose native language is traditionally written in a leftward direction. In contrast with Hebrew script, Japanese script (both Kanji and Kana) is traditionally written and read vertically, although the lines are read from right to left. This does not mean Japanese languages are written in a leftward direction. Japanese horizontal scripts are written from left to right, the same as alphabetic languages.

We previously reported a high incidence of left-handed mirror writing among the patients with essential tremor, Parkinson disease, and cerebellar ataxia, proposing the existence of some neural mechanism controlling the higher cerebral function of writing via the thalamus,² which was introduced in Lancet³ and also quoted as one of the 4 theories (the involvement of thalamocortical circuitry) in this . . . [Full Text of this Article]

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Kunio Tashiro, MD, PhD; Akihisa Matsumoto, MD, PhD; Fumio Moriwaka, MD, PhD; Kohji Shima, MD, PhD; Takeshi Hamada, MD, PhD