Numerical deficits in a single case of basal ganglia dysfunction

Neurocase

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 390-404

  Zamarian, L ^a   Bodner, T ^a   Revkin, S K ^b   Benke, T ^a   Boesch, S ^a   Donnemiller, E ^a   Delazer, M ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b INSERM U562 Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Basal ganglia; Fronto subcortical; Number matching; Verification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MESENCEPHALON; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SEMANTICS; SPEECH DISORDER; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 71849089444     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790902849156     Document Type: Article

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