Cognitive deficits from a cerebellar tumour: A historical case report from Luria's Laboratory

Cortex

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 26-35

  Budisavljevic, Sanja ^a   Ramnani, Narender ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A.R. Luria; Cerebellar tumour; Cortico cerebellar system; Frontal lobe; Neuropsychology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARACHNOENDOTHELIOMA; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; AUTOPSY; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN VENTRICULOGRAPHY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONVALESCENCE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DELTA RHYTHM; DISORIENTATION; DIVERGENT STRABISMUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONALITY; EXHAUSTION; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FRONTAL LOBE; GAIT DISORDER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE PALSY; HYPOSMIA; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; LEARNING; LETHARGY; MIGRAINE; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NYSTAGMUS; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; SELF CONCEPT; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASTE DISORDER; THETA RHYTHM; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERTIGO;

ADULT; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FRONTAL LOBE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGY; ORIENTATION; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84855201646     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.07.001     Document Type: Article

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