Recall deficits in stroke patients with thalamic lesions covary with damage to the parvocellular mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2477-2491

  Pergola, Giulio ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^a   Koch, Benno ^b   Schwarz, Michael ^b   Daum, Irene ^a   Suchan, Boris ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Municipal Hospital Dortmund   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ischemia; Mediodorsal nucleus; Recall; Recognition memory; Recollection; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; RECALL; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS;

AGED; ASSOCIATION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STROKE; THALAMUS;

EID: 84864386190     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.06.019     Document Type: Article

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