Nervous and mental diseases . Figs. 73, 74— Handwriting in a case of motor aphasia. Patients attempt to write bis own name—GeoW. Whitehall: A, spontaneously ; B, after dictation. Usually there is right hemiplegia, and the right hand is the hand is not disabled, the agraphia persists none the less. Itwill be recalled that the graphic motor word memories are last acquired,the least deeply imprinted, and probably very easily disarranged. Theyare, no doubt, closely associated with the motor * vocal memories, notonly by nearness of location, but in function. As one learns to write,an
Nervous and mental diseases . Figs. 73, 74— Handwriting in a case of motor aphasia. Patients attempt to write bis own name—GeoW. Whitehall: A, spontaneously ; B, after dictation. Usually there is right hemiplegia, and the right hand is the hand is not disabled, the agraphia persists none the less. Itwill be recalled that the graphic motor word memories are last acquired,the least deeply imprinted, and probably very easily disarranged. Theyare, no doubt, closely associated with the motor * vocal memories, notonly by nearness of location, but in function. As one learns to write,and even after much usage of the pen, he unconsciously inwardly pro-nounces first the letters singly and later the syllable sounds as he exe-cutes the written characters. Agraphia is reaily apraxia, and probablydue to the participation of the prerolandic area of the second frontalgyre. ^ A few rare cases of motor aphasia have retained fairly good useof written speech. It may be that the individuals possessing deeplyimprinte
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