The visual word form area is the neural basis for visualizing letters and words for patients with pure alexia and rare right-sided lesions leading to pure alexia in right-handed individuals. In a case report of a patient with a hemorrhagic lesion to the right fusiform gyrus, limited recovery of reading skills occurred within 6 weeks post-onset. Functional MRI showed right-hemisphere dominance for language and bilateral reading-related activity in the fusiform gyri. This case emphasized that pure alexia may be due to right fusiform gyrus damage in right-handed patients (who still may have right hemisphere dominance for language and reading skills). The disorder may cause severe reading disability, just like the patients with left-hemisphere dominance for language.[16]