A Patient with Difficulty of Object Recognition: Semantic Amnesia for Manipulable Objects
We studied a patient who had recognition difficulty for manipulable objects. MRI showed a lesion in the left occipito-parietotemporal area. Differential diagnosis of agnosia, aphasia and apraxia is discussed. We believe this “object meaning amnesia” constitutes a distinct subtype of semantic amnesia...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
1992-01-01
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Series: | Behavioural Neurology |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-1992-5307 |