The riddle of anosognosia: Does unawareness of hemiplegia involve a failure to update beliefs?

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1771-1781

  Vocat, Roland ^a   Saj, Arnaud ^b   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

AHP; Anosognosia for hemiplegia; Awareness; Denial; Hemiplegia; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOSOGNOSIA; ANOSOGNOSIA FOR HEMIPLEGIA; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PROPRIOCEPTION; SEMANTICS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TIME PERCEPTION; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL FIELD; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; AGNOSIA; AWARENESS; BRAIN; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; SELF CONCEPT; STROKE;

EID: 84879463793     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.10.009     Document Type: Article

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