Where are your body parts? A pure case of heterotopagnosia following left parietal stroke

Neurocase

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 459-465

  Auclair, Laurent ^a,b   Noulhiane, Marion ^a   Raibaut, Patrick ^b   Amarenco, Gerard ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b HÔPITAL ROTHSCHILD   (France)

Author keywords

Autotopagnosia; Body representations; Body schema; Heterotopagnosia; Parietal lobe

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; DISORIENTATION; DYSGRAPHIA; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; GAZE; GESTURE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEADACHE; HETEROTOPAGNOSIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMITATION; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE TEST; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION DISORDER; SEMANTIC MEMORY; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERBAL MEMORY;

AGED; AGNOSIA; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STROKE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 74749083203     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790902911642     Document Type: Article

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