Cortex
Volume 44, Issue 8 , Pages 975-982 , September 2008

The disconnection apraxias

  • Kenneth M. Heilman

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Neurology, University of Florida College of Medicine, The Center for Neuropsychological Studies and the Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Hospital, Gainesville, FL, USA.
    • ,
  • Robert T. Watson

Received 4 June 2007 ,Revised 25 September 2007 ,Accepted 12 October 2007.

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