Anosognosia in neurodegenerative disease

Neurocase

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 231-241

  Rosen, Howard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Fronto temporal; Insight; Motivation

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANOSOGNOSIA; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; APATHY; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DECISION MAKING; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EPISODIC MEMORY; ERROR; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MOTIVATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERSONALITY; PUNISHMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; SELF MONITORING; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SOCIAL PROBLEM; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

AGNOSIA; CAREGIVERS; DEMENTIA; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 79959323660     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2010.522588     Document Type: Review

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