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Cognitive rehabilitation may be useful for the symptoms that interfere with activities of daily life, such as agraphia and acalculia. en.wikipedia.org

Deep agraphia is often the result of a lesion involving the left parietal region (supramarginal gyrus or insula). en.wikipedia.org

Agraphia can not be directly treated, but individuals can learn techniques to help regain and rehabilitate some of their previous writing abilities. en.wikipedia.org

Agraphia has two main subgroupings: central (aphasic) agraphia and peripheral (nonaphasic) agraphia. en.wikipedia.org

This form of agraphia is caused specifically by a loss of specialized motor plans for the formation of letters and not by any dysfunction affecting the writing hand. en.wikipedia.org

Posterior corpus callosum (splenium) lesions may result in alexia without agraphia. en.wikipedia.org

Those who have agraphia with nonfluent aphasia can write brief sentences but their writing is difficult to read. en.wikipedia.org

Additionally, some individuals with cerebellar lesions (more typically associated with non-apraxic motor dysfunction) develop apraxic agraphia. en.wikipedia.org

Deep agraphia involves damage to the same areas of the brain as lexical agraphia plus some damage to the perisylvian language areas as well. en.wikipedia.org

The specific type of agraphia resulting from brain damage will depend on which area of the brain was damaged. en.wikipedia.org

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