Kana versus kanji in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A clinicoradiological study of writing errors

European Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 148-155

  Ichikawa, Hiroo ^a   Hieda, Sotaro ^a   Ohno, Hideki ^a   Ohnaka, Yohei ^a   Shimizu, Yuuki ^a   Nakajima, Masashi ^a   Kawamura, Mitsuru ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agraphia; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Frontotemporal lobar degeneration; Kana; Kanji; Omission; Substitution; Syntactic error; Writing errors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGRAPHIA; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; ERROR; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WRITING;

EID: 77954897161     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000317011     Document Type: Article

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