Diagonistic dyspraxia. Clinical characteristics, responsible lesion and possible underlying mechanism

Brain

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 859-873

  Tanaka, Y ^a   Yoshida, A ^b   Kawahata, N ^b   Hashimoto, R ^a   Obayashi, T ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Narita Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alien hand; Corpus callosum; Diagonistic dyspraxia; Superior parietal lobule

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISSOCIATION; DYSPRAXIA; FRONTAL LOBE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

APRAXIAS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE;

EID: 0029885899     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/119.3.859     Document Type: Article

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