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Inter- and Intramodality Matching Deficits in a Dysphasic Youth
Peter B. Rosenberger, MD;
Jay P. Mohr, MD;
Lawrence T. Stoddard, PhD;
Murray Sidman, PhD
Arch Neurol. 1968;18(5):549-562.
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THE SUBJECT of this report suffered a stroke at the age of 14, and the available evidence suggests extensive damage to the left (dominant) cerebral hemisphere. During the two years since onset of his illness we have carried out a series of behavioral studies relevant to the general problem of interhemispheric relations, with particular reference to language function.
Clinical tests indicated that the patient was unable to write single letters to dictation, or even to select a dictated letter from several available visual choices. He was, however, able to deal fairly effectively with simple words on these tasks. It was this apparent discrepancy which prompted us to seek through special testing techniques a more precise delineation of his behavioral deficits.
An additional, although not secondary, purpose of this report is to describe an investigative methodology. As is so often the case, our patient's almost complete lack of oral speech
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Author Affiliations
Boston
From the Behavior Laboratory, Neurology Service, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Memorial Laboratories Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept 22, 1967: accepted Oct 20.
Reprint requests to Division of Neuropsychiatry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC 20012 (Dr. Rosenberger).
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