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A CASE STUDY OF SIMULTANAGNOSIA AND PROSOPAGNOSIA Yoshitaka Ohigashi 1 , Yutaka Ishijima 2 1Department of Neuropsychiatry, Kyoto First Red Cross Hospital 2Department of Neurosurgery, Kyoto National Hospital pp.1203-1211
Published Date 1975/11/1
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1406203804
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The authors have studied a 29-year-old right-handed female patient, who developped a paticulartype of visual agnosia as the sequellae of AcuteNecrotizing Encephalitis. After acute or sabacutestage during about for weeks, various neuropsy-chiatric and neuropsychological symtoms had ap-peared. These were as follows;

1) Personal change; she became very childlikeand imprudent.

2) Memory Disorders; she presented retrogradeamnesia for seven or eight years and incomplete"oubli a mesure". The short term memory wasmost massively impaired as compared with immediateor remote memory. The orientation for time andspace was almost preserved and did not appearedthe tendency to make confabulation.

3) Very mild amnestic aphasia or semantic aphasiawas revealed on the precise examinations.

4) Visual agnosia was the most caracteresticsymptom of this patient, the constituents of which were:

a) partial agnosia for figurative pictures and si-multanagnosia ; the more the complexity of pictures,the more the difficulty of recognizing them.

b) agnosia for faces or prosopagnosia ; she couldnot recognize the faces of familiar persons such asthe parents of her husband, her friends, her doctorsor nurses.

c) agnosia for animals; she failed to recognizeor identify many animals and birds.

d) mild topographical disorientation and severetopographical memory loss.

From the results of our neuropsychological ex-periments on this patient, it is concluded that herability to achieve recognition of unfamilar faceswas not so impaired, but retention of them wasdrastically disorders and that it was same with thevisual retention of many animals and birds. How-ever, with the Benton's Visual Retention Test (ac-cording to the Multiple Choice Method), she broughtabout relatively good results. Then, for the purposeof explaining the prosopagnosia in this case, wehave insisted on the factors of visual memory im-pairment, not only of faces but also of many otherindividual objects, and it is also noted that thesimultanagnosia in this case may be attributed tothe disability of grasping the meanings of moreindividual pictures.

Based on the neurological and neuropsychologicalfindings, it is possible to say that the lesions of ourpatient are estimated to extend to the both sides ofthe cerebral bases, perhaps principally to the baseof the left cerebral hemisphere.


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