Agraphia in bulbar-onset amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Not merely a consequence of dementia or aphasia

Behavioural Neurology

Volumn 20, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 91-99

  Ichikawa, Hiroo ^a   Takahashi, Nobuyoshi ^a   Hieda, Soutaro ^a   Ohno, Hideki ^a   Kawamura, Mitsuru ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agraphia; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Frontotemporal dementia; Syntactic error; Writing error

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; ETHYLCYSTINATE DIMMER TC 99M; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; IOFETAMINE I 123; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; AGRAPHIA; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; WRITING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGRAPHIA; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; APHASIA; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH DISORDERS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 68649085929     PISSN: 09534180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2008/695721     Document Type: Article

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