Progressive prosopagnosia associated with selective right temporal lobe atrophy: A new syndrome?

Brain

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 1-13

  Evans, J J ^a   Heggs, A J ^b   Antoun, N ^c   Hodges, J R ^a,d  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b FULBOURN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dementia; Material specific memory; Prosopagnosia; Semantic knowledge; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYNDROME; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL MEMORY;

AGED; AGNOSIA; ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0028950806     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/118.1.1     Document Type: Article

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