Nō to shinkei = Brain and nerve
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Case Reports
[The acquisition of language through finger spelling in a child with auditory agnosia (author's transl)].
A child with auditory agnosia for verbal and nonverbal sounds was reported. He was born without difficulty and his early development was normal. At the age of 14 months, he suffered from herpes simplex encephalitis and fell in a trance. ⋯ In this patient, the development of language is not good as well as in most previous reports, perhaps because of extensive lesions of language area. The patients with auditory agnosia is frequently mistaken for deaf or mentally retarded children. We emphasize that the early diagnosis and early speech therapy with visual communication are needed for these children.
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Case Reports
[A case of psychomotor attack induced by the compression of carotid artery (author's transl)].
A patient with psychomotor attack beginning at the age of 60 showed no abnormal finding of EEG at rest, brain CT and other routine examination but cerebroangiography. Bilateral carotid angiography revealed the conspicuous course of anterior cerebral artery and the embryonic pattern of posterior cerebral artery. Vertebroangiography showed no image of the right posterior cerebral artery. ⋯ From the finding of cerebroangiography above mentioned we guessed that the cerebral circulation impairment based on the abnormal form of Willis' circle and the process of aging caused the attack. This presumption might be supported by the fact the same as spontaneous attack was induced by the compression of right carotid artery. In this case furthermore, the evocability of attack, which the compression of carotid artery showed, was useful as one of indicators by which we judge the effect of antiepilepticus.