Transient naming deficits associated with insular lesions in a patient with encephalitis

Marxreiter, Franz; Utz, Kathrin; Schlachetzki, Johannes Carolus Magnus; Seifert, Frank; Schmidt, Manuel; Doerfler, Arnd; Schwab, Stefan und Schenk, Thomas (2019): Transient naming deficits associated with insular lesions in a patient with encephalitis. In: Neurocase, Bd. 25, Nr. 6: S. 243-250

Abstract

We describe a patient with acute herpes simplex encephalitis with left-hemispheric hippocampal, parahippocampal and insular lesions. Although prototypic language areas were unaffected, the patient suffered from an inability to name objects or animals displayed on pictures. This deficit was transient and gradually disappeared 8 weeks after the initial diagnosis. Our findings are in line with a previous report showing similar deficits in a patient with a comparable lesion pattern and support the hypothesis that left insular lesions can produce severe naming deficits. Using FDG-PET we ruled out that functional deactivation in classical language areas account for the observed naming deficits.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Psychologie und Pädagogik > Department Psychologie
• Themengebiete: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie > 150 Psychologie
• ISSN: 1355-4794
• Sprache: Englisch