Agnosia
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Epilepsy in children leads to disorders in their psychomotor development or the loss of their acquired skills. Successful pharmacological treatment of epilepsy provides grounds for effective therapeutic measures. The goal of this article... more
Colour agnosia concerns the inability to recognise colours despite intact colour perception, semantic memory for colour information, and colour naming. Patients with selective colour agnosia have been described and the deficit is... more
Aunque no puedo asegurar qué fue lo que despertó mi interés por los soportes neurales de la razón, recuerdo cuando me con�vencí de que tradicionalmente su naturaleza se enfocaba mal. Desde niño había oído que las decisiones sensatas... more
Agnosia (del griego ἀγνωσία: «desconocimiento») es la interrupción en la capacidad para reconocer estímulos previamente aprendidos, o de aprender nuevos estímulos, sin haber deficiencia en la percepción, lenguaje o intelecto. En la... more
The mystical union with God is accomplished at the moment when the Intellect separates from itself, by entering into the Divine Darkness. This ecstasy of the Intellect and this accession to God are the ones who allow it to know God not by... more
Neuropsychological approximation: definition, classification & main theories
Balint syndrome is a combination of symptoms including simultanagnosia, a disorder of spatial and object-based attention, disturbed spatial perception and representation, and optic ataxia resulting from bilateral parieto-occipital... more
If asked directly, anosognosic patients deny or seriously underestimate their motor difficulties. However explicit denial of hemiplegia does not necessarily imply a lack of insight of the deficit. In this study we explored explicit and... more
Neuropsychologia (2004), 42(5), 597-612. Associative visual agnosia is classically defined as normal visual perception stripped of its meaning (Lissauer, 1890): these patients cannot access to their stored visual memories to categorize... more
Paintings produced spontaneously by patients with neurological lesions represent a fascinating opportunity to analyze some aspects of the underlying disease and involved brain mechanisms. Many cases of artists who have suffered spatial... more
Early studies suggested visual form perception impairment in schizophrenia. To re-examine this claim and characterise the deficit neuropsychologically, 41 schizophrenic patients were administered tests sensitive to different levels of... more