Is slowly progressive anarthria a "pure" motor-speech disorder? Evidence from writing performance

Neurocase

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 234-241

  Lucchelli, Federica ^a   Papagno, Costanza ^b  

^a AO Sant'Anna ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONETICS; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; SEMANTICS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SLOWLY PROGRESSIVE ANARTHRIA; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISORDER; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WRITING;

AGED; APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; SPEECH DISORDERS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 21244449202     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790590944889     Document Type: Article

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