Social and emotional functions in three patients with medial frontal lobe damage including the anterior cingulate cortex

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 369-388

  Baird, Amee ^a   Dewar, Bonnie Kate ^a   Critchley, Hugo ^b   Dolan, Ray ^b   Shallice, Tim ^c   Cipolotti, Lisa ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GAMBLING; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33847171357     PISSN: 13546805     EISSN: 14640619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546800444000245     Document Type: Article

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