Severe retrograde amnesia after a mild closed head injury

Neurocase

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 105-109

  Starkstein, Sergio E ^a,b   Sabe, Liliana ^a   Dorrego, María Flavia ^a  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones Neurologicas Raul Carrera   (Argentina)

^b NONE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Anterograde amnesia; Closed head injury; Retrograde amnesia; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; RUGBY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPORT INJURY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; TIME;

EID: 0030872114     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/neucas/3.2.105     Document Type: Article

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