Priftis et al_Alexia without agraphia_COVID_2021

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 resulting in COVID-19 can affect the brain and cause neuropsychological disorders (e.g., executive dysfunction and memory difficulties). Recently the presence of more focal and isolated neuropsychological signs has been also reported, in the domain of language disorders (e.g., alexia without agraphia, conduction aphasia). We reported on patient LM affected by a left occipito-temporal ischemic stroke after SARS-CoV-2. LM had a largely preserved overall cognitive profile, but he presented with severe alexia without agraphia. We suggest that focal and isolated neuropsychological dysfunction can be observed in patients with stroke after SARS-CoV-2. Neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation should be promptly provided to these patients.

Self-portrait of a Stranger: Self-face Representation and Interoception in Depersonalization Experiences

“…Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Amnesia Disorder (Hunter, Phillips, Chalder, Sierra, & David, 2003), there are clear and commonly-observed differences in the way they encode, retrieve and experience self-related memories as compared to healthy individuals (see e.g. Özdemir, Özdemir, Boysan, & Yilmaz, 2015;Prior et al, 2021;Sierra, 2009). These memory differences are characterized on a subjective level within the 'Anomalous Subjective Recall' factor of the widely-used Cambridge Depersonalisation Scale (CDS: Sierra & Berrios, 2000), which contains items describing a variety of self-reported experiences involving recall of self-related autobiographical events, including the feeling that recalled autobiographical memories did not really happen to the person, the feeling that recent personal events happened long in the past, the feeling that recent personal events had already happened (déjà vu), and a difficulty in evoking visual images (Sierra, Baker, Medford, & David, 2005).…”