Implicit awareness in anosognosia: Clinical observations, experimental evidence, and theoretical implications

Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 181-197

  Mograbi, Daniel C ^a,b   Morris, Robin G ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Anosognosia; Awareness; Dementia; Hemiplegia; Implicit memory

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANOSOGNOSIA; AWARENESS; COGNITION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DENIAL; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MUSCLE CELL; NOTE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COGNITIVE AWARENESS MODEL; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; IMPLICIT AWARENESS; MODEL; PARESIS; PSYCHODYNAMICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGNOSIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AWARENESS; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84888080946     PISSN: 17588928     EISSN: 17588936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2013.833899     Document Type: Note

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