Ip. Lukashevich et Sb. Buklina, DEGRADATION OF HIGHER MENTAL FUNCTIONS IN PATIENTS WITH LESIONS LOCALIZED IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF CAUDATE-NUCLEUS, Zurnal vyssej nervnoj deatelnosti im. I.P. Pavlova, 46(1), 1996, pp. 49-54
The relation between deterioration in higher mental functions and loca
lization of the brain pathological process was studied in 22 patients
with arteriovenous malformation in the head or/and the body of the cau
date nucleus using the methods of multivariate statistics and structur
ally organized neuropsychological information. It was shown that the l
esions in the caudate nucleus body resulted in disturbances of the spa
tial functions. Pathological foci in the head of the caudate nucleus w
ere associated with memory disorders (the right-side foci were accompa
nied by deterioration in the visual memory and the left-side ones by t
hat in the audio-verbal memory) and modification of programming and co
ntrol of voluntary activity.