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Funcionamiento ejecutivo y capacidad para la resolución de problemas en pacientes con traumatismos cranoencefálicos

Year: 1999

Type: article

Abstract: The present study was designed to study the main neuropsychological deficits and other associated problems in patients with Traumatic Brain Injury with involve lesions in the frontal lobe. For this two groups of patients have been studied, using the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test and the Tower of Hanoi/Sevilla, with lesions located in this area (frontal group) and in other zones of the brain (non frontal group) exept frontal lobe. The results suggest that in patients with frontal lobe lesions there are a bigger executive impairment, of reasoning and in the capacity to solve problems that are in the group with lesions in other zones of the brain differents of the frontal lobe.

Source: Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja)

Authors: Juan Manuel Barroso y Martín, José León Carrión, María de los Angeles Muñoz Sánchez, José María Domínguez Roldán, Francisco Murillo Cabezas

Language: English

Topic: Traumatic Brain Injury Research

Subfield: Clinical Neurology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: Natural Environment Research Council

Award: G8882543853

OpenAlex ID: W20116149