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Besides clinical reports of focal frontal patients, papers will be listed concerning anarchic hand syndrom, disorders of working memory and utilisation behaviour.
Most important papers are marked with an asterisk.

Areas:

Neuropsychological Accounts on Frontal Patients and on the anarchic (alien) hand syndrom

Working Memory

Utilisation Behaviour 

Neuropsychological Accounts
on Frontal Patients and
on the anarchic (alien) hand syndrom

Working Memory

Della Sala S, Spinnler H (1994) Finger agnosia: Fiction or reality? Archives of Neurology 51: 448-450

Brazzelli M, Colombo N, Della Sala S, Spinnler H (1994) Spared and impaired cognitive abilities after bilateral frontal damage. Cortex 30: 27-51
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Della Sala S, Marchetti C, Spinnler H (1991) Right sided anarchic (alien) hand: A longitudinal study. Neuropsychologia 29: 1113-1127
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Della Sala S, Marchetti C, Spinnler H (1994) The anarchic hand: a fronto-mesial sign. In: Boller F, Grafman J (Eds.) Handbook of Neuropsychology (vol IX, pp 233-258). Amsterdam: Elsevier
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Della Sala S, Baddeley A, Papagno C, Spinnler H (1995) Dual-task paradigm: A means to examine the central executive. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 769: 161-171 *

Baddeley A, Della Sala S, Papagno C, Spinnler H (1997) Dual-task performance in dysexecutive and nondysexecutive patients with a frontal lesion. Neuropsychology 11: 187-194
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Baddeley A, Della Sala S, Gray C, Papagno C, Spinnler H (1998) Testing central executive functioning with a pencil-and-paper test. In: Rabbit P (Ed.) Methodology of frontal and executive functions (pp 61-80). Hove: Psychology Press

Della Sala S, Gray C, Spinnler H (1998) Frontal lobe functioning in man: The riddle revisited. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 13: 663-682

Utilisation Behaviour

Brazzelli M, Spinnler H (1998) An example of lack of frontal inhibition: the “utilisation behaviour”. European Journal of Neurology 5: 347-353

Boccardi E, Della Sala S, Motto C, Spinnler H (2002) Utilisation behaviour consequent to bilateral SMA softening. Cortex 38: 289-308
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Updated to July 2011