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Mental Changes as a Presenting Feature in Subcortical Cerebral Lesions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

C. W. M. Whitty
C. W. M. Whitty*
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From the Department of Neurology, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
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Lesions of the cerebral cortex are generally accepted as a potential source of psychological change, and the difficulties that may arise in distinguishing between one of the psychiatric illnesses at present regarded as idiopathic and one due to a lesion of the prefrontal cortex, the temporal lobe or the posterior parietal region are well recognized. Since there is normally a continual functional interplay between cortex and subcortical structures, lesions in the latter may also be expected at times to produce changes in psychological function.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 102 , Issue 429 , October 1956 , pp. 719 - 725
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1956 

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