Comorbid Asperger and Tourette syndromes with localized mesencephalic, infrathalamic, thalamic, and striatal damage

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 207-212

  Berthier, Marcelo L ^a   Kulisevsky, Jaime ^b   Asenjo, Beatriz ^c   Aparicio, Jesús ^c   Lara, Diego ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^c CT Scanner Center   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; HALOPERIDOL; PAROXETINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; ATTENTION; AUTOMUTILATION; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN NECROSIS; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; FAMILY HISTORY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INFANTILE HYPOTONIA; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MESENCEPHALON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL DEVIATION; SPEECH DISORDER; STRIATE CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; TIC; VIOLENCE; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 0037368191     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2003.tb00933.x     Document Type: Article

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