Impaired visual processing of contralesional stimuli in neglect patients: A visual-evoked potential study

Brain

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 842-854

  Di Russo, Francesco ^a,b   Aprile, Teresa ^a,b   Spitoni, Grazia ^b   Spinelli, Donatella ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME FORO ITALICO   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention deficit; Neglect; Neuropsychology; Pattern onset VEP; Visual cortex; Visual quadrants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; NEGLECT; NEUROANATOMY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGED; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 39749195535     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awm281     Document Type: Article

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