Aprosodia and alexithymia - a case report

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1985, Pages 156-160

  Fricchione, Gregory ^a   Howanitz, Evelyn ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ALEXITHYMIA; APROSODY; BRAIN INJURY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGE;

EID: 0021985518     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: 14230348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000287873     Document Type: Article

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