Earlier studies, which suggested that anosognosia of hemiplegia might be related to right
hemisphere (RH) lesions did not control for the influence of confounding variables, such as …

Aims: To investigate, in a group of subjects at an early stage of cognitive impairment, the
relationship between anosognosia and both cognitive and behavioral symptoms by …

Neurological patients can be entirely unaware of their disease; this phenomenon is called
anosognosia and it has been shown in different sensory-motor and cognitive domains. Lack …

Psychological and biological hypotheses have been proposed to explain anosognosia. We
correlated the presence of anosognosia with the presence and severity of psychiatric …

Objectives To evaluate severity of anosognosia and to identify its neuropsychological
correlates in preclinical and clinical Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Methods The Clinical Insight …

Background Awareness may lack in some stroke patients who are not capable of evaluating
the nature and severity of illness. Thus, unawareness may have different forms such as …

Anosognosia is one of the major problems in the treatment and care of Alzheimer's disease
(AD) patients. The aim of the study was to determine the patient characteristics, psychiatric …

Patients with anosognosia fail to acknowledge, or feel distressed by, their disability. Given
the recent suggestion that right (frontal) systems are selectively involved in negative …

A self-rating scale of memory functions was administered to 24 non-depressed patients with
probable Alzheimer's disease, divided into two groups according to the overall severity of …

Depression and reduced awareness of illness (anosognosia) can be frequent complications
following a brain lesion but the relationship between these two syndromes is still unclear …