A disconnection account of Gerstmann syndrome: Functional neuroanatomy evidence

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 654-662

  Rusconi, Elena ^a,b   Pinel, Philippe ^a,c,d   Eger, Evelyn ^a,c,d   LeBihan, Denis ^c,d   Thirion, Bertrand ^c   Dehaene, Stanislas ^a,c,d   Kleinschmidt, Andreas ^a,c,d  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DIF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACALCULIA; ADULT; AGNOSIA; AGRAPHIA; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISORIENTATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GERSTMANN SYNDROME; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE MATTER; WRITING;

EID: 72949103932     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.21776     Document Type: Article

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