STUDIES ON THE CORPUS CALLOSUM
IV. Diagonistic Dyspraxia in Epileptics Following Partial and Complete Section of the Corpus Callosum
ANDREW J. AKELAITIS MC V(S), U.S.N.R.1
1 The Department of Medicine, Division of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and the clinics of the Strong Memorial and Rochester Municipal Hospitals.
A peculiar type of behavior disorder consisting of an apparent conflict between the desired and the actually performed act is described in 2 epileptics following partial and complete callosal section. The psychobiological and psychoneurological aspects of this diagonistic type of dyspraxia is discussed. It is concluded that in the first case psychobiological factors played a major rôle in the etiology of the disorder, and that in the second case the diagonistic dyspraxia was probably an epileptic variant.
