Two cases of functional focal retrograde amnesia with impairment of object use

Cortex

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 613-622

  Nakamura, Hikaru ^a   Kunori, Yoko ^b   Mori, Kayoko ^c   Nakaaki, Shutaro ^d   Yoshida, Shinichi ^e   Hamanaka, Toshihiko ^e  

^a OKAYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA DAINI RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Matsunami General Hospital   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^e Yagoto Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Functional amnesia; Object use; Retrograde amnesia; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; ALEXIA; ANOMIA; ANOREXIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT DISORDER; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; IDIOPATHIC EDEMA; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE; LIFE EVENT; MALAISE; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERFUSION; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; SPECTROSCOPY; STRESS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VERBALIZATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036759556     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70025-X     Document Type: Article

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