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[Visual-form thinking of patients before and after stereotaxic surgery on the ventrolateral nucleus of the thalamus]. 1985

T Sh Gagoshidze, and E D Khomskaia

An examination of patients with deformed muscular dystonia before and after stereotaxic surgery on the ventrolateral nucleus of the thalamus showed that prior to the surgery they had a certain difficulty in solving tasks involving mental manipulation with three-dimensional objects and constructive activity. It took them more time to accomplish these tasks and they made different mistakes as compared to normal. Changes in the object and image thinking differed, depending on the side of the destruction of the ventrolateral nucleus of the thalamus. Patients with right-side lesion were prone to overturn both a three-dimensional figure and a two-dimensional image, they showed greater changes in conducting tests on mental manipulation and constructive activity as against the patients who had left-side cryodestruction. It may be assumed that impairment of the complex forms of spatial functions manifested in mental manipulation with objects and in constructive activities is related to the work of the subcortical formations of the right hemisphere.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D010468	Perceptual Disorders	Cognitive disorders characterized by an impaired ability to perceive the nature of objects or concepts through use of the sense organs. These include spatial neglect syndromes, where an individual does not attend to visual, auditory, or sensory stimuli presented from one side of the body.	Hemispatial Neglect,Hemisensory Neglect,Sensory Neglect,Somatosensory Discrimination Disorder,Discrimination Disorder, Somatosensory,Discrimination Disorders, Somatosensory,Hemisensory Neglects,Hemispatial Neglects,Neglect, Hemisensory,Neglect, Hemispatial,Neglect, Sensory,Neglects, Hemisensory,Perceptual Disorder,Sensory Neglects,Somatosensory Discrimination Disorders
D011183	Postoperative Complications	Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery.	Complication, Postoperative,Complications, Postoperative,Postoperative Complication
D001931	Brain Mapping	Imaging techniques used to colocalize sites of brain functions or physiological activity with brain structures.	Brain Electrical Activity Mapping,Functional Cerebral Localization,Topographic Brain Mapping,Brain Mapping, Topographic,Functional Cerebral Localizations,Mapping, Brain,Mapping, Topographic Brain
D004422	Dystonia Musculorum Deformans	A condition characterized by focal DYSTONIA that progresses to involuntary spasmodic contractions of the muscles of the legs, trunk, arms, and face. The hands are often spared, however, sustained axial and limb contractions may lead to a state where the body is grossly contorted. Onset is usually in the first or second decade. Familial patterns of inheritance, primarily autosomal dominant with incomplete penetrance, have been identified. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1078)	Childhood Torsion Disease,Idiopathic Torsion Dystonia,Oppenheim-Ziehen Disease,Progressive Torsion Spasm,Torsion Dystonia,Dystonia Deformans Musculorum,Dystonia Deformans Progressiva,Torsion Disease of Childhood,Dystonia, Idiopathic Torsion,Dystonias, Idiopathic Torsion,Dystonias, Torsion,Idiopathic Torsion Dystonias,Oppenheim Ziehen Disease,Spasm, Progressive Torsion,Torsion Disease, Childhood,Torsion Dystonia, Idiopathic,Torsion Spasm, Progressive
D005260	Female		Females
D005556	Form Perception	The sensory discrimination of a pattern, shape, or outline.	Contour Perception,Contour Perceptions,Form Perceptions,Perception, Contour,Perception, Form,Perceptions, Contour,Perceptions, Form
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293	Adolescent	A person 13 to 18 years of age.	Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D000328	Adult	A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available.	Adults