Differential impairment of remembering the past and imagining novel events after thalamic lesions

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3037-3051

  Weiler, Julia ^a   Suchan, Boris ^a   Koch, Benno ^b   Schwarz, Michael ^b   Daum, Irene ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM DORTMUND   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EPISODIC FUTURE THINKING; EPISODIC MEMORY; EVENT GENERATION TASK; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MEDIAL DORSAL THALAMUS; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL STRESS; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSONALITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; THALAMUS; THALAMUS LESION; THINKING; TIME PERCEPTION; VASCULAR LEUKENCEPHALOPATHY; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; THALAMUS;

EID: 84860421822     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2011.21633     Document Type: Article

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