What is Anosognosia?
This word describes a condition in which a person is unaware of their own disability or illness
What is anosognosia?
People with anosognosia may deny having this, even if the symptoms are obvious to others.
What is a neurological deficit or illness?
A disease that is difficult to manage, as people with this disease are often unwilling to accept assistance.
What is anosognosia?
As people with anosognosia cannot recognize they have a problem, they are less willing to accept supportive measures.
Anosognosia is most often associated with disorders that affect this organ.
What is the brain?
A method for diagnosing anosognosia.
What is a through patient assessment and neurological exam?
Anosognosia may be suspected when a health concern is diagnosed, and signs are present the patient does not recognize that concern.
Anosognosia can happen for many different reasons, all of which fall into two categories.
What is brain damage, and degenerative diseases?
This phrase is the literal translation of anosognosia, a word of Greek origin.
What is "without knowledge of disease"?
(a - without) (nosos - disease) (gnosis - knowledge)
This is a common neurodegenerative disorder where anosognosia is frequently observed.
What is Alzheimer's disease and/or dementia?
A treatment for anosognosia.
What is fiction?
There is no direct treatment for anosognosia. There are treatments/cognitive therapies to help patients better understand and compensate for their deficit, but they do not treat the conditions themselves.
This British neurologist first coined the term "anosognosia" to describe patients unaware of their hemiplegia
Who is Babinski?