Frontal lobe syndrome reassessed: Comparison of patients with lateral or medial frontal brain damage

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 664-667

  Paradiso, Sergio ^a,e   Chemerinski, Eran ^b   Yazici, Kazim M ^c   Tartaro, Armando ^d   Robinson, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Instituto de Investigaciones Neurologicas Raul Carrera   (Argentina)

^c HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Apathy; Depression; Disinhibition; Frontal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; APATHY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 0032849401     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.67.5.664     Document Type: Article

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