Musical alexia with recovery: A personal account

Brain

Volumn 129, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2554-2561

  McDonald, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angular gyrus; Cerebral infarction; Dyscalculia; Extracampine hallucinations; Parietal lobe; Prosopagnosia; Spatial disorientation; Supramarginal gyrus

Indexed keywords

ALEXIA; ANGULAR GYRUS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DISORIENTATION; DYSCALCULIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MUSIC; MUSICAL ALEXIA; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; READING; REMISSION; REVIEW; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; SYMPTOM; TOPOGRAPHICAL DISORIENTATION; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSFORMED MIGRAINE; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

EID: 33749464234     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awl235     Document Type: Review

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