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Cognitive Testing: Achilles Heel of Clinical Neurology - USF Health

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The importance <strong>of</strong> Metacognition<br />

Frontal network syndromes (FNS)<br />

• FNS are the most common cognitive disorders<br />

• Confirmed by animal models<br />

• FNS increasingly reported with discrete lesions<br />

outside anatomical boundary <strong>of</strong> the frontal lobe<br />

• Include; subcortical grey matter, subcortical<br />

white matter, isolated lesions <strong>of</strong> the brainstem,<br />

cerebellum, temporal and parietal lobes

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