Functional amnesia and memory consolidation: A case of severe and persistent anterograde amnesia with rapid forgetting following whiplash injury

Neurocase

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 189-200

  Markowitsch, Hans J ^a   Kessler, Josef ^b   Kalbe, Elke ^b   Herholz, Karl ^c  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Episodic memory; Positron emission tomography; Retrograde amnesia; Whiplash injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORIENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTELLIGENCE; MOTHER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT CARE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; WHIPLASH INJURY;

EID: 0032774444     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/neucas/5.3.189     Document Type: Review

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