Left Hand Mirror Writing Following a Left Temporo-Parietal Lobe Infarction.
- Author:
Jee Hoon ROH
1
;
Seong Beom KOH
;
Youn Seon CHOI
;
Sung Wook YU
;
Min Kyu PARK
;
Kun Woo PARK
;
Dae Hie LEE
Author Information
1. Department of Neurology, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. parkinson@korea.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Mirror writing;
Left temporo-parietal lobe infarction
- MeSH:
Aged;
Brain;
Functional Laterality*;
Hand*;
Humans;
Infarction*;
Writing
- From:Journal of the Korean Neurological Association
2004;22(2):138-141
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Mirror writing is the simultaneous process of reversing individual letters and composing word strings in the reverse direction. This phenomenon appears rarely only after brain damage. We present the case of a 65-year-old, right-handed man with mirror writing following a left temporo-parietal lobe infarction. He preferred to write in the mirror direction with his left hand, but he did not show any visual-spatial disturbance and allochria. We think that damage to the dominant writing program of the brain, releases the normally suppressed contralesional writing program and this uninhibited program induces the mirror writing.
