Dissociation between distal and proximal left limb agraphia and agraphesthesia in a patient with a callosal disconnection syndrome

Cortex

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 351-363

  Bachoud Lévi, Anne Catherine ^a,b   Ergis, A M ^a,c   Cesaro, P ^a   Degos, J D ^a  

^a HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Callosal disconnection; Left agraphesthesia; Left agraphia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRAPHIA; ANOMIA; ARM; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; WRITING;

EID: 0033934942     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70846-3     Document Type: Article

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