Visuospatial deficits due to impaired visual attention: Investigation of two cases of slowly progressive visuospatial impairment

Cortex

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 327-341

  Suzuki, Kyoko ^a   Otsuka, Yuji ^a   Endo, Keiko ^a   Ejima, Akiko ^b   Saito, Hiroshi ^b   Fujii, Toshikatsu ^a   Yamadori, Atsushi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Constructional apraxia; Simultanagnosia; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRAPHIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CASE REPORT; CONSTRUCTIVE APRAXIA; DRAWING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION DISORDER; READING; SIMULTANAGNOSIA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0038418003     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0010-9452(08)70112-6     Document Type: Article

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