title: Proper name anomia after left temporal subcortical hemorrhage.
abstract: We report here a patient with proper name anomia following subcortical hemorrhage in the left superior temporal gyrus. Despite the preserved ability to retrieve common names, the patient could not retrieve the names of people, countries, or racehorses, which he could recognize quite well. Semantic knowledge regarding people, countries, and racehorses was also preserved. In addition. the finding that phonological cueing was effective with preservation of the ability to point to photos corresponding to their names suggested that the lexicon of proper names was preserved in this patient. Thus, the output lexicon appeared to be partially disconnected from semantic knowledge. This rare and limited lesion suggested that the superior temporal gyrus plays an important role in connecting semantic knowledge and the output lexicon.
authors.affiliation: Department of Disability Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan. otsuka@hospital.asahi.chiba.jp
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Otsuka
authors.forename: Kyoko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Toshikatsu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fujii
authors.forename: Rina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Miura
authors.forename: Keiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Endo
authors.forename: Hisatake
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yamadori
mesh_terms: D000849:Anomia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012660:Semantics; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000473:pathology; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014825:Vocabulary