Anatomical correlates of alien hand syndromes

Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 149-155

  Chan, Jin Lieh ^a,c   Liu, An Bang ^b  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c Section of Infectious Diseases   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALIEN HAND SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE;

AGED; APRAXIAS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033494031     PISSN: 0894878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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