A left basal ganglia case of dynamic aphasia or impairment of extra-language cognitive processes?

Neurocase

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 184-203

  Crescentini, Cristiano ^a   Lunardelli, Alberta ^a,c   Mussoni, Alessandro ^a   Zadini, Antonietta ^c   Shallice, Tim ^a,b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Cortical subcortical loops; Dynamic aphasia; Failure of inhibition; Verbal alternatives

Indexed keywords

AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AGED; APHASIA; ATTENTION; BASAL GANGLIA; COGNITION DISORDERS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS; STROKE; THINKING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 47149087777     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790802108380     Document Type: Article

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