Central agraphias typically involve language areas of the brain, causing difficulty spelling or with spontaneous communication, and are often accompanied by other language disorders.
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Apraxic agraphia without ideomotor apraxia may be caused by damage to either of the parietal lobes, the dominant frontal lobe, or to the dominant thalamus.
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Alexia can also co-occur with agraphia, the specific loss of the ability to produce written language even when other manual motor abilities are intact.
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Seven Dials ProgrammeThe regular listings programme contained woodcut-style pen and ink drawings by illustrator Clifford Harper, whose current work can be seen at Agraphia.
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Neurologist Albert Pitres ( 1848-1928 ) credited Marc?for providing the first description for agraphia, based on a paper issued by Marc?in 1860.
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Peripheral agraphias usually target motor and visuospatial skills in addition to language and tend to involve motoric areas of the brain, causing difficulty in the movements associated with writing.
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The history of agraphia dates to the mid-fourteenth century, but it was not until the second half of the nineteenth century that it sparked significant clinical interest.
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In 1884, over two decades after the research of acquired language disorders began, Albert Pitres made an important contribution when he published a clinical report of pure agraphia.
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In 1867, William Ogle, who coined the term " agraphia ", made several key observations about the patterns of dissociation found in written and spoken language.
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Dysgraphia should be distinguished from agraphia, which is an acquired " loss " of the ability to write resulting from brain injury, stroke, or progressive illness.
