Behavioral disorders in association with posterior callosal and frontal cerebral infarction

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Lejeune, J.P. | Caparros-Lefebvre, D.^;

Affiliations: Department of Neurosurgery, CHRU Lille, 59037 Lille Cédex, France | Department of Neurology, CHRU Lille, 59037 Lille Cédex, France

Note: [] Correspondence to: D. Caparros-Lefebvre at above address

Abstract: Behavioral disorders were a prominent clinical feature after the surgical treatment of an anterior communicating artery aneurysm rupture in a 44-year-old man. Callosal apraxia was associated with an alien hand. The latter remained 1 year after surgery while diagonistic apraxia disappeared after 3 months. Other callosal signs included left agraphia, tactile anomia and auditory suppression. MRI revealed posterior callosal infarction and a right frontal infarct. The association of diagonistic apraxia and alien hand is rarely reported.

Keywords: Alien hand, Callosal infarction, Diagonistic apraxia

DOI: 10.3233/BEN-1993-6109

Journal: Behavioural Neurology, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 55-57, 1993