Asomatognosia
Asomatognosia is characterized as loss of recognition or awareness of part of the body.[1][2] The failure to acknowledge, for example, a limb may be expressed verbally or as a pattern of neglect. The limb may also be attributed to another person, a delusion known as somatoparaphrenia. However, they can be shown their limb and this error is temporarily corrected.[3][4] All asomatognosic patients show hemispatial neglect.[5]
See also
- Anosognosia, a condition in which a person is unaware or in denial of an illness.
References
- ↑ Arzy, S.; Overney, L. S.; Landis, T.; Blanke, O. (2006). "Neural Mechanisms of Embodiment". Archives of Neurology 63 (7): 1022. doi:10.1001/archneur.63.7.1022.
- ↑ Vallar, G. & Ronchi, R. (2009). Somatoparaphrenia: a body delusion. A review of the neuropsychological literature. Experimental Brain Research, 192:3, 533-551
- ↑ Feinberg, T., Venneri, A., Simone, A.M., et al. (2010). The neuroanatomy of asomatognosia and somatoparaphrenia. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 81, 276-281
- ↑ Bottini, Gabriella; Bisiach, Edoardo; Sterzi, Roberto; Vallar, Giuseppe (2002): “Feeling touches in someone else's hand.” Neuroreport 13 (2), 249–252.
- ↑ A.J. Larner (12 November 2010). A Dictionary of Neurological Signs. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-4419-7095-4.
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