Recovery from amnesic confabulatory syndrome after right fornix lesion

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 404-409

  Ruggeri, Massimiliano ^a,b   Sabatini, Umberto ^b  

^a Rehabilitation Center CAR   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Confabulation; Fornix; Orbitofrontal; Pilocytic astrocytoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFABULATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AMNESIA; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FORNIX, BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 45449093618     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968307313506     Document Type: Article

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