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Aphasia with reported loss of dreaming

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.1.108

Seven patients who had become aphasic as a result of acute vascular lesions reported a loss of dreaming. The authors conclude that the dreaming process is affected when the left hemisphere neural systems related to waking language are impaired.

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