The alien limb phenomenon and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 842-846

  Rubin, Mark ^a   Graff Radford, Jonathan ^a   Boeve, Bradley ^a   Josephs, Keith A ^a   Aksamit, Allen J ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Alien limb; Apraxia; Creutzfeldt Jakob; Dementia; Prion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALIEN LIMB PHENOMENON; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX;

ADULT; AGED; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION;

EID: 84865346059     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: 18735126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2012.04.009     Document Type: Article

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