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Visual agnosia: when your brain doesn't process what you see
In those with visual agnosia, the parts of the brain responsible for processing that information don't work as they should, and this manifests in a discrepancy between what they see and what the ...
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On the Record: May is National Stroke Awareness Month
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Assessment of Language Function in Dementia
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 ...
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What Does It Mean When You Don’t Dream… Like Ever? A Dream Expert Has the Answers
visual agnosia (inability to recognize objects) and challenges revisualizing images,” explains Naomi Sangreal, MA, licensed psychotherapist, dream specialist, and author of Little Hidden Doors ...
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Selective impairment of facial recognition due to a haematoma restricted to the right fusiform and lateral occipital region
He did not show deficits in visual or visuospatial perception of non-facial stimuli, alexia, visual agnosia, or topographical disorientation. Brain MRI showed a haematoma limited to the right fusiform ...
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The use of FAST and ABCD2 scores in posterior circulation, compared with anterior circulation, stroke and transient ischemic attack
Patients with anterior circulation stroke presented more frequently with focal sensory defect or weakness, agnosia (any form, including visual, sensory or extinction), dysarthria, dysphasia and ...
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Music disorders
a review article summarizing recent and past studies on music disorders (e.g., music agnosia, congenital amusia, poor-pitch singing, tone deafness, beat deafness, etc.) and their implications for the ...
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Alzheimer's Disease Warning Signs: What To Look Out For
Overview A type of brain disorder that causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior. This is a gradually progressive ...
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Infectious Disease
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Attribute-based neural substrates in temporal cortex for perceiving and knowing about objects
The cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying category-specific knowledge remain controversial. Here we report that, across multiple tasks (viewing, delayed match to sample, naming), pictures of ...
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Field Notes
The Blind Oedipus Commending his Children to the Gods by Bénigne Gagneraux Because I studied ancient Greek and Latin for many years, I developed a love for the Greek language — its unadorned ...