However, these patients didn’t know that they were paralysed. To describe their condition, Babinski coined the term anosognosia – taken from the Greek agnosia, lack of knowledge, and nosos, disease.

One of these is agnosia, or “an impairment of correctly understanding information provided by the senses of seeing, hearing, ...

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visual agnosia (inability to recognize objects) and challenges revisualizing images,” explains Naomi Sangreal, MA, licensed psychotherapist, dream specialist, and author of Little Hidden Doors ...

Geriatrics and Aging. 2005;8(8):61-68. Binswanger's disease (BD), or subacute arteriosclerotic encephalopathy, is characterized by diffuse demyelination of the white matter with lacunar lesions in ...

When patients fail to recognize what an object is, they are exhibiting visual agnosia caused by the loss of semantic knowledge for the object. Circumlocution and visual agnosia can be observed in ...

Part of the ventral temporal lobe is thought to be critical for face perception, but what determines this specialization remains unknown. We present evidence that expertise recruits the fusiform ...

It provides an organized approach to neurological conditions such as amnesic syndrome, aphasia, agnosia and apraxia, it includes previously unpublished data on grasp reflex and Wernicke disease is ...

Taking on the representation of Down syndrome, autism, alexia/agnosia as well as childhood disability, its chapters combine close readings of a number of Spanish cultural products (films, novels, the ...