Vascular thalamic amnesia: A reappraisal

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 777-789

  Carlesimo, Giovanni Augusto ^a,b   Lombardi, Maria Giovanna ^b   Caltagirone, Carlo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Executive functions; Familiarity; Recollection; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

APATHY; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DEMENTIA; DYSPHORIA; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; NEUROIMAGING; PERSONALITY DISORDER; RECALL; REVIEW; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VASCULAR THALAMIC DEMENTIA; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; THALAMUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954422769     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.01.026     Document Type: Review

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