[Interhemispheric disconnection syndrome caused by partial infarction of the corpus callosum: neuropsychological study and MRI]

Rev Neurol (Paris). 1996 Mar;152(3):165-73.
[Article in French]

Abstract

A partial syndrome of hemisphere disconnection was observed in a 63 year-old woman, following an anterior and middle corpus callosum infarct on MRI. Notably, we found left ideomotor apraxia, diagonistic apraxia, left-year extinction on dichotic listening, but no left-hand anomia nor left visual field anomia. A left tactile extinction in dichaptic condition is interpreted as resultant of a dysregulation of the attentional balance between the two hemispheres. This detailed neuropsychological study permits a correlation between the callosal syndrome and the lesion. We suggest that an occlusion of the anterior callosal artery could explain this limited ischemia.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Cerebral Infarction / complications*
  • Cerebral Infarction / diagnosis
  • Cerebral Infarction / psychology
  • Corpus Callosum / blood supply*
  • Corpus Callosum / pathology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
  • Middle Aged
  • Nervous System Diseases*
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Syndrome