Apathy, cognitive dysfunction and impaired social cognition in a patient with bilateral thalamic infarction

Neurocase

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 513-520

  Ioannidis, Anestis E ^a   Kimiskidis, Vasilios K ^a   Loukopoulou, Eleni ^a   Geroukis, Triantafyllos ^b   Vlaikidis, Nikolaos ^a   Kosmidis, Mary H ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b G Papanikolaou Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dorsomedial thalamic lesions; Emotion perception; Personality changes; Sarcasm; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; CLOPIDOGREL; DONEPEZIL;

ADULT; ANOSOGNOSIA; APATHY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EMOTION; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL COGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMIC INFARCTION; THEORY OF MIND; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; APATHY; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THALAMUS;

EID: 84885046335     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2012.701645     Document Type: Article

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