Retrograde amnesia for world knowledge and preserved memory for autobiographic events. A case report

Cortex

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 243-252

  Markowitsch, Hans J ^a   Calabrese, Pasquale ^b   Neufeld, Herbert ^b   Gehlen, Walter ^b   Durwen, Herbert F ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Episodic memory; General knowledge; Retrograde amnesia; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LITERATURE; MALE; MEMORY; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; SCIENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0032929090     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70797-4     Document Type: Article

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