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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782223103321

Titolo

Awareness of deficit after brain injury : clinical and theoretical issues / / edited by George P. Prigatano, Daniel L. Schacter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1991

©1991

ISBN

1-280-76015-X

9786610760152

0-19-802257-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Disciplina

617.4/81

Soggetti

Brain damage

Anosognosia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Anosognosia Related to Hemiplegia and Hemianopia; 3. Anosognosia of Linguistic Deficits in Patients with Neurological Deficits; 4. Anosognosia: Possible Neuropsychological Mechanisms; 5. Disturbance of Self-Awareness After Frontal System Damage; 6. Unawareness of Deficits in Dementia and Schizophrenia; 7. Disturbances of Self-Awareness of Deficit After Traumatic Brain Injury; 8. Unawareness of Deficit and Unawareness of Knowledge in Patients with Memory Disorders; 9. Three Possible Mechanisms of Unawareness of Deficit

10. Reality Monitoring: Evidence from Confabulation in Organic Brain Disease Patients11. Anosognosia, Consciousness, and the Self; 12. Role of Psychological Factors in Disordered Awareness; 13. Anosognosia and Denial of Illness; 14. Forms of Unawareness; Glossary; Index

Sommario/riassunto

1. Introduction, George P. Prigatano and Daniel L. Schacter. 2. Anosognosia Related to Hemiplegia and Hemianopia, Edoardo Bisiach and Guiliano Geminiani. 3. Anosognosia of Linguistic Deficits in Patients with Neurological Deficits, Alan B. Rubens. 4. Anosognosia: Possible Neuropsychological Mechanisms, Kenneth M. Heilman. 5.



Disturbance of Self-Awareness After Frontal System Damage, Donald T. Stuss. 6. Unawareness of Deficits in Dementia and Schizophrenia, Susan M. McGlynn and Alfred W. Kaszniak. 7. Disturbances of Self-Awareness of Deficit After Traumatic Brain Injury, George P. Prigatano. 8.