Memory impairment due to a small unilateral infarction of the fornix

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 164-166

  Korematsu, Kojiro ^a   Hori, Tetsuya ^a   Morioka, Motohiro ^b   Kuratsu, Jun ichi ^b  

^a Hori Hospital   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Cerebral infarction; Fornix; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neuroanatomy; Strategic infarction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECALL; SYMPTOM; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE;

AMNESIA; AMNESIA, RETROGRADE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COMPREHENSION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FORNIX, BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH;

EID: 74149083262     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2009.10.016     Document Type: Article

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