Another piece in the jigsaw: A case report of prosopagnosia with symptomatological, imaging and post mortem anatomical evidence

Cortex

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 641-643

  Sugimoto, Azusa ^a   Miller, Michael W ^b   Kawai, Yoshinari ^a   Shiota, Junichi ^c   Kawamura, Mitsuru ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Ushioda General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AUTOPSY; BILE DUCT TUMOR; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LETTER; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSOPAGNOSIA; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; PROSOPAGNOSIA;

EID: 84858438861     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.04.003     Document Type: Letter

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