Atypical conduction aphasia and the right hemisphere: Cross-hemispheric plasticity of phonology in a developmentally dyslexic and dysgraphic patient with early left frontal damage

Neurocase

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 93-111

  Berthier, Marcelo L ^a   Dávila, Guadalupe ^a,b   García Casares, Natalia ^a   Green, Cristina ^a   Juárez, Rocío ^a   Ruiz Cruces, Rafael ^a   Pablo Lara, J ^a   Barbancho, M A ^a  

^a Centro de Investigaciones Médico Sanitarias C I M E S   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brain plasticity; Conduction aphasia; Developmental dysgraphia; Developmental dyslexia; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CONDUCTION APHASIA; DYSGRAPHIA; DYSLEXIA; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHONETICS; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STROKE; WRITING;

ADULT; AGRAPHIA; APHASIA, CONDUCTION; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; KLIPPEL-TRENAUNAY-WEBER SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; STROKE;

EID: 79952510725     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2010.498380     Document Type: Article

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