Rinshō shinkeigaku = Clinical neurology
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Review Case Reports
[Motor amusia following a right temporal lobe hemorrhage--a case report].
A 65-year-old female was admitted to our hospital because of left hemiparesis with sudden onset one week before. She was congenitally right-handed. She had been a teacher of Japanese string instrument (samisen) playing and been able to sing Japanese traditional songs well. ⋯ MRI was performed one year and a half after the brain hemorrhage. It displayed a thin linear of hematoma in the white matter of the right upper temporal and transverse gyrus. It was proved in our case that motor amusia with minimal musical receptive dysfunction could appear following a cerebral lesion and musical function might be independent of intelligence or verbal function.