Use of the Visual Object and Space Perception (VOSP) test battery in two cases of posterior cortical atrophy

Neurocase

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 32-36

  Videaud, Hélène ^a   Torny, Frederic ^a   Prado Jean, Annie ^a   Couratier, Philippe ^a  

^a LIMOGES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Agnosia; Lobar atrophy; Posterior cortical atrophy; Visual object and space perception battery; Visuospatial dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALINT SYNDROME; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GERSTMANN SYNDROME; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OPTICAL ATAXIA; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR CORTICAL ATROPHY; SIMULTAGNOSIA; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL OBJECT AND SPACE PERCEPTION BATTERY TEST; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

AGED; ATROPHY; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 61549111471     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790802570480     Document Type: Article

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