Anosognosia is a multifaceted syndrome characterized by a lack of awareness of motor,
cognitive, or emotional deficits. While most studies have focused on basic motor disorders …

Disturbances of self-awareness are observed in a wide variety of patients. While group
studies can provide useful information concerning potential mechanisms underlying these …

Patients with a variety of neurological diseases might be unaware of their deficits. For
example, patients with blindness from an infarction of visual cortex (Brodmann's area 17) …

Persisting anosognosia after acute lesions is relatively rare, and no case studies to date
have reported functional scanning investigation of this disorder. This is a case report of an …

Anosognosia for hemiplegia (AHP) is conventionally defined/diagnosed by generic
questions about awareness of limb plegia. However, unawareness of inability to perform …

In 1914, Babinski first described “anosognosia”; a term he coined for a phenomenon
involving unawareness of disability in hemiplegia. Historical roots of contemporary …

Patients with anosognosia fail to acknowledge their motor impairments. Anosognosia is
usually assessed by means of a structured interview, beginning with questions about …

Unconscious processing of environmental stimuli has been convincingly demonstrated for a
large number of neuropsychological syndromes. However, only few studied have …

There was a tendency for some commentators to focus on highly specific theoretical
proposals by Freud, and to ask (implicitly or explicitly) whether we wish to defend them …

Presents the clinical evidence of anosognosia (ANS) by summarizing the case of a 65-yr-old
woman whose entire left side suddenly became paralyzed, without any loss of …