Slowly progressive impairment of spatial exploration and visual perception

Neurocase

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 299-323

  Della Sala, Sergio ^a   Spinnler, Hans ^b,d   Trivelli, Cristina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c Medical Center of Rehabilitation   (Italy)

^d SAN PAOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BALINT HOLMES SYNDROME; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 0029794820     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554799608402405     Document Type: Article

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