Balint's syndrome in a 10-year-old male

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 349-352

  Gillen, Jennifer A ^a   Dutton, Gordon N ^b  

^a ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTATION; AGNOSIA; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BALINT SYNDROME; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DYSGRAPHIA; DYSLEXIA; GAZE PARALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CENTER; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORY STIMULATION; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WRITING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGNOSIA; APRAXIAS; ATAXIA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CHILD; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCULOMOTOR NERVE DISEASES; PARIETAL LOBE; SELF CARE; SYNDROME;

EID: 0037405674     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162203000641     Document Type: Article

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