Visual command hallucinations in a patient with pure alexia

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 80-86

  Ffytche, D H ^a   Lappin, J M ^a   Philpot, M ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGNOSIA; ALEXIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOR BLINDNESS; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; ILLUSION; INTERVIEW; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMANTICS; STROKE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

EID: 0346494820     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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