Disturbances of Higher Cortical Functions in Deep Brain Lesions

Abstract

This section of neuropsychology was not discussed in the previous edition of this book because the practical application of neuropsychological methods to the study of patients with deep brain lesions has hitherto encountered a number of difficulties. Not even the extensive developments in stereotaxic operations on deep brain structures in the last decades, which have yielded so much new information about their functions, have removed the chief difficulties in the way of analysis of the changes arising in cortical activities when the normal work of these deep brain zones is disturbed.