Teaching NeuroImages: Thalamic aphasia syndrome
Neurology current issue
An 83-year-old right-handed woman presented with sudden right-sided hemiparesis, somnolence, and loss of normal speech. Speech was nonfluent with semantic paraphasias and word-finding difficulties. Word repetition and comprehension was normal. MRI brain showed an area of restricted diffusion in the left thalamus consistent with acute infarction (figure 1). Speech fluency returned to normal after 2 days with occasional dysnomia and paraphasias.
Original Article: http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/short/81/23/e177?rss=1
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