PURE WORD DEAFNESS - ANALYSIS OF A CASE WITH BILATERAL LESIONS AND A DEFECT AT THE PRE-PHONEMIC LEVEL
PURE WORD DEAFNESS - ANALYSIS OF A CASE WITH BILATERAL LESIONS AND A DEFECT AT THE PRE-PHONEMIC LEVEL
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DOI:
10.1093/brain/105.2.271
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
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影响因子:
14.5
通讯作者:
ALBERT, ML
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作者:
AUERBACH, SH;ALLARD, T;ALBERT, ML
PURE word deafness is a rare syndrome first described by Kussmaul (1877) when he used the term'reinen WortaubheW to describe a patient unable to comprehend spoken words with otherwise intact speech production and reading abilities. Clinically, the patient with pure word deafness is supposed to be free of any aphasic difficulties, although many of the reported cases are marked by elements of Wernicke's aphasia (Brown, 1974; Rubens, 1979; Benson, 1979). The syndrome is distinct from the symptom of word deafness which may appear as a component of Wernicke's aphasia. Some authors have preferred the term'verbal auditory agnosia'or'auditory agnosia for linguistic material'(Ulrich, 1978), but the term'pure word deafness' has retained wide clinical acceptance (Brown, 1974; Hecaen and Albert, 1978; Rubens, 1979; Benson, 1979). There was uncertainty that pure word deafness was a distinct disorder of cerebral function. Wernicke and Freidlander (1893) believed Kussmaul's case represented an incomplete description of his sensory aphasia. Freud (1891) suspected that a peripheral hearing loss was necessary for the development of an isolated word deafness. On the basis of two cases with labyrinthine dysfunction, Freund (1895) concluded that the syndrome was primarily due to hearing loss. Marie (1906) also doubted the existence of such a syndrome. However, the subsequent description of several well-documented cases which came to autopsy established the syndrome as a distinct entity (Goldstein, 1974).