The effects of frontal lobe damage on everyday problem solving

Cortex

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 357-366

  Dimitrov, Mariana ^a   Grafman, Jordan ^a   Hollnagel, Caroline ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL PROBLEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0029945479     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(96)80057-8     Document Type: Article

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