Dejerine Center
Historical document, translated for reference. It reflects medical knowledge of the 1920s–30s and is not medical advice.
Summary
The Dejerine Center, also known as the center of word blindness, is located in the left hemisphere of the brain in the angular gyrus and is related to speech function. Damage to this center results in word blindness or alexia, a form of sensory aphasia where patients lose the ability to understand written text.
Encyclopedia entry (1928–1936)
DEJERINE CENTER, or center of word blindness, is located in the brain, in the left hemisphere, in the gyrus angularis, and has relation to the speech function: disease of this center leads to word blindness, or alexia, which is one of the forms of sensory aphasia. Patients with word blindness lose the ability to understand written text, to read aloud or to themselves, to copy; understanding of numbers is mostly preserved; often in them hemianopsia homonyma dextra is observed due to simultaneous damage to the nearby visual pathways. [See. Aphasia, Vol. II, p. 551 (fig., 7) and Brain (physiology).]
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“Dejerine Center.” Soviet Medical Encyclopedia. English translation of Bolshaya Meditsinskaya Entsiklopediya, 1st ed. (Moscow, 1928–1936), ed. N. A. Semashko. https://sovietmedicalencyclopedia.pages.dev/article/dejerine-center/