Contribution to the evaluation of language disturbances in subcortical lesions: A piloty study

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-57

  Radanovic, Márcia ^a,b   Mansur, Letícia Lessa ^a   Azambuja, Mariana Jardim ^a   Porto, Cláudia Sellitto ^a   Scaff, Milberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Frontal dysfunction; Language; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MEMORY; THALAMUS; VASCULAR LESION; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

EID: 1842842919     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2004000100009     Document Type: Article

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