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Utilization behaviour and its relation to lesions of the frontal lobes. by F. Lhermitte (From the Clinique de Neurologie et de Neuropsychologie, Hôpital de la Salpê.trière, 47, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France.) Brain 1983; 106: 237255.
Lhermitte takes as his starting point the contralateral grasp reflex resulting from frontal lobe lesions, tracing its history from Wilson and Walshe (1914) and Adie and Critchley (1927)see aboveto Derek Denny Brown's concept of magnetic apraxia in which unilateral frontal release of parietal function leads to crossed grasping in response
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