Agnosia: summary
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Agnosia | Sensory perception of a sensory, tactile, visual and / or acoustic nature: the subject is unable to recognize and identify a given object, perfume, form, person or entity |
Agnosia: etymology of the term | The term agnosia derives from the Greek a-gnosis, which literally means not knowing |
Agnosia: causes | Agnosia is directly related to brain injury |
Agnosia appercettiva | Impairment of the patient's perceptive functionality:
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Associative Agnosia | The patient is not able to associate a meaning to a given object, therefore this is not recognized: inability to recognize the object, to remember its name and correct use |
Visual agnosia | Impossibility of recognition of some objects, although the visual capacities are not harmed or damaged:
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Auditory or acoustic agnosias | Impossibility of recognizing sounds and noises of more or less intensity |
Tactile agnosia (stereoagnosie) | Inability to recognize an object through touch:
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Visuospatial Agnosia | Obvious problems in processing spatial information perfectly |
Digital agnosia | Inability to identify, distinguish or name one's own hands |
Unilateral spatial neglect | The subject cannot identify a part of the space that surrounds him |
Agnosia: diagnosis | Targets:
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Agnosia and rehabilitation treatment | Precautions:
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Agnosia: prognosis | The complete recovery of the agnostic patient is rather unlikely: nevertheless, the symptoms can be relieved through targeted rehabilitation |