Cognitive and Affective Disturbances Following Focal Brainstem Lesions: A Review and Report of Three Cases

Cerebellum

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 317-340

  D’aes, Tine ^a   Mariën, Peter ^a,b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b MIDDELHEIM HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome; Cognition; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CEREBELLAR COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE SYNDROME; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMOTIONALITY; EPENDYMOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; MIGRAINE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ATTENTION; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84929706409     PISSN: 14734222     EISSN: 14734230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12311-014-0626-8     Document Type: Review

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