Crick bases this suggestion on scans of patients with specific lesions which seemed to interfere with their sense of independent will, such as alien hand syndrome.

As for specific premalignant lesions, tubular adenoma in one patient harboured cancer in this study.

However, anomic aphasia is the most difficult to associate with a specific lesion location in the brain.

In the past decade, myriad music-specific disorders have been identified, causes ranging from congenital to acquired (specific lesions in the brain).

Cataplexy is considered secondary when it is due to specific lesions in the brain that cause a depletion of the hypocretin neurotransmitter.

Secondary cataplexy is associated with specific lesions located primarily in the lateral and posterior hypothalamus.

Although microvascular disease is the specific lesion usually associated with diabetes mellitus, atherosclerosis, particularly of the coronary vessels, accounts for the major morbidity and mortality in diabetic patients.

A recent meta-analysis has also shown a specific lesion common to achromats corresponding to V4.

Studies of patients with specific lesions can help pinpoint specific regions of the brain that may also be affected in patients with autism.

The different conditions mean that many conditions which produce characteristic lesions on the skin produce only non specific lesions in the mouth.