Procedural learning is impaired in patients with prefrontal lesions

Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1853-1860

  Beldarrain, Marian Gömez ^a   Grafman, Jordan ^b,c   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^c   Garcia Monco, Juan C ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE GALDAKAO   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; PERSEVERATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 0344848679     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.52.9.1853     Document Type: Article

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