5. Occipital lobectomy
Any surgical intervention with removes part of the brain has to be something that is taken seriously in the extreme and perhaps only considered as a last resort or when all other conservative and noninvasive methods have been ruled out.
When an Occipital lobectomy is deemed to be absolutely necessary, alexia is likely to be a consequence of the removal of this part of the brain as the person simply doesn’t have the hardware needed to be able to decipher and understand the written word.
This can be a hard thing for a lot of people to deal with but it is also true that the vast majority of people would much prefer to be alive and unable to read than dead with their ability to read left intact.
It’s a bit of a no brainer if you’ll pardon the pun, but sometimes preservation of life is the most important thing that a patient and a doctor have to consider.