A strange face in the mirror. Face-selective self-misidentification in a patient with right lateralized occipito-temporal hypo-metabolism

Cortex

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1088-1090

  Van den Stock, Jan ^a   de Gelder, Beatrice ^a,b,c   De Winter, François Laurent ^a   Van Laere, Koen ^d   Vandenbulcke, Mathieu ^a  

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN METABOLISM; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSUBCORTICAL ATROPHY; DELUSIONAL MISIDENTIFICATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACE SELECTIVE SELF MISIDENTIFICATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LATERALIZED OCCIPITOTEMPORAL HYPOMETABOLISM; LETTER; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOGRAPHY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84863777815     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.03.003     Document Type: Letter

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