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What is Agnosia, in a nutshell?
A disorder of recognition
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What are the three categories of agnosia?
visual, auditory, and tactile
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Are there currently any medical treatments for Agnosia?
No.
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True/False: Patients with prosopagnosia also have difficulty recognizing places.
True.
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What causes agnosia?
trauma, stroke, brain injury, etc.
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True/False? Agnosia can be considered a degenerative disease.
False
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Visual agnosia is primarily caused by a lesion to what lobe?
Occipital
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True/False: Recent years have witnessed progress in the identification of agnosia.
True
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Babies typically recognize faces at what age?
Six months.
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What church is His Holiness , Dr. Rev. Coughlin ordained under?
Universal Life Church
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True/False? Symptoms of agnosia include sensory loss, acute confusional state, amnesia, etc.
False
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Define Tactile Agnosia
impairment of the ability to recognize objects through the sense of touch.
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The term "Agnosia" was first coined by what famous psychologist?
Sigmund Freud
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Patients with prosopagnosia typically recognize other people by:
voice, unusual facial features... anything really
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Prosopagnosia refers to difficulty perceiving what type of information?
Faces
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Complete the sentence: "In patients with agnosia, information from the outside world is perceived but not _________"
recognized.
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Wernicke's Aphasia is similar to what type of auditory Agnosia?
Pure Word Deafness
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DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!! Briefly explain the reason for the difficulty in diagnosing agnosia.
Agnosia is unique to the individual. No Two cases are the same. Patients have difficulty describing their symptoms.
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What type of agnosia does the author suffer from?
Prosopagnosia/ Topographal agnosia.
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What are the two parallel systems that process visual information?
Parvocellular and magnocellular
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What is the Greek meaning of the word "agnosia" ?
"absence of knowledge"
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Anton's Syndrome refers to what type of agnosia?
anosognosia
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"Critics claim that agnosia merely reflects a combination of ______ _______ ________ and ______ ______."
Primary sensory loss; intellectual deterioration.
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What is the name of the author?
Oliver Sacks
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What is Dr. Coughlin's Favorite Color?
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