Multiple thalamo-cortical disconnections in anterior thalamic infarction: Implications for thalamic mechanisms of memory and language

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 264-273

  Nishio, Yoshiyuki ^a   Hashimoto, Mamoru ^b   Ishii, Kazunari ^c   Ito, Daisuke ^a   Mugikura, Shunji ^a   Takahashi, Shoki ^a   Mori, Etsuro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Language; Medial temporal lobe; Memory; Semantic; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMNESIA; ANTERIOR THALAMIC INFARCTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; MEMORY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VERY ELDERLY;

AN; ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; IML; INTERNAL MEDULLARY LAMINA; LANGUAGE; MAGNOCELLULAR VENTRAL ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; MAMMILLOTHALAMIC TRACT; MD; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; MEDIODORSAL NUCLEI; MEMORY; MTT; SEMANTIC; THALAMUS; VA; VAMC; VENTRAL ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; VENTRAL INTERMEDIATE NUCLEUS; VENTRAL LATERAL ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; VENTRAL LATERAL POSTERIOR NUCLEUS; VIM; VLA; VLP;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MAMILLARY BODIES; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; THALAMIC DISEASES; THALAMUS;

EID: 84890833372     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.11.025     Document Type: Article

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