21. Neuroanatomic Correlates Of Visual Agnosia In Alzheimer's Disease Neuroanatomic correlates of visual agnosia in Alzheimer's disease http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

22. Face Blindness - Prosopagnosia And Agnosia Face Blindness links to information, areas of research and academic interest. http://www.psychnet-uk.com/clinical_psychology/clinical_psychology_face_blindnes

23. Introduction: Agnosia - WrongDiagnosis.com Introduction to agnosia as a medical condition including symptoms, diagnosis, misdiagnosis, treatment, prevention, and prognosis. http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/a/agnosia/intro.htm

Home Symptoms Diseases Risks ... Diseases Search our medical database Subscribe to our free Newsletter sample Send this page to a friend Condition Lists By Organ By Symptom By Class By Prevalence ... List A-Z Current chapter: Agnosia Next sections Basic Summary for Agnosia Prevalence and Incidence of Agnosia Prognosis of Agnosia Causes of Agnosia ... Symptoms of Agnosia Next chapters: Alexander Syndrome Alternating Hemiplegia Anoxia Aphasia ... Feedback Introduction: Agnosia Agnosia: Inability to recognize objects, sounds or people Agnosia: Agnosia is a rare disorder characterized by an inability to recognize and identify objects or persons despite having knowledge of the characteristics of the objects or persons. Researching symptoms of Agnosia: Further information about the symptoms of Agnosia is available including a list of symptoms of Agnosia , or alternatively return to research other symptoms in the symptom center Treatments for Agnosia: Various information is available about treatments available for Agnosia , or research treatments for other diseases. Causes of Agnosia: Research more detailed information about the causes of Agnosia , other possibly hidden causes of Agnosia , or other general information about Agnosia Statistics and Agnosia: Various sources and calculations are available in statistics about Agnosia prevalence and incidence statistics for Agnosia , and you can also research other medical statistics in our statistics center Contents for Agnosia:

24. Symptoms Of Agnosia - WrongDiagnosis.com Symptoms of agnosia including signs, symptoms, incubation period, duration, and correct diagnosis. http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/a/agnosia/symptoms.htm

Home Symptoms Diseases Risks ... Agnosia Search our medical database Subscribe to our free Newsletter sample Send this page to a friend Condition Lists By Organ By Symptom By Class By Prevalence ... List A-Z Current chapter: Agnosia Next sections Misdiagnosis of Underlying Causes of Agnosia Treatments for Agnosia Statistics about Agnosia Statistics by Country for Agnosia ... Articles about Agnosia Next chapters: Alexander Syndrome Alternating Hemiplegia Anoxia Aphasia ... Feedback Symptoms of Agnosia General information about symptoms of Agnosia: The symptom information on this page attempts to provide a list of some possible symptoms of Agnosia. This symptom information has been gathered from various sources, may not be fully accurate, and may not be the full list of symptoms of Agnosia. Furthermore, symptoms of Agnosia may vary on an individual basis for each patient. Only your doctor can provide adequate diagnosis of symptoms and whether they are indeed symptoms of Agnosia. List of symptoms of Agnosia: The list of symptoms mentioned in various sources for Agnosia includes: Inability to recognize objects Inability to recognize people Inability to recognize sounds Symptoms of Agnosia: People with agnosia may have difficulty recognizing the geometric features of an object or face or may be able to perceive the geometric features but not know what the object is used for or whether a face is familiar or not. Agnosia can be limited to one sensory modality such as vision or hearing. For example, a person may have difficulty in recognizing an object as a cup or identifying a sound as a cough.

25. Review Of Martha Farah, Visual Agnosia Martha Farah, Visual agnosia Disorders of Object Recognition and What They Common sense says that visual agnosia is impossible. It ought not exist. http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~wwwphil/freview.html

Review of Martha Farah, Visual Agnosia Philosophical Psychology, 7(1), 1994, 126-29 Martha Farah, Visual Agnosia: Disorders of Object Recognition and What They Tell Us about Normal Vision (MIT Press, Bradford Books, 1990). Austen Clark Department of Philosophy U-54 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269-2054 Martha Farah has cast considerable light into the darkness with her book Visual Agnosia: Disorders of Object Recognition and What They Tell Us about Normal Vision (MIT Press, Bradford Books, 1990. Page references to that volume.) This is, literally, a wonderful book: filled with perceptions of things marvellous and (apparently) inexplicable. It is invigorating to see how steadfast empiricism and contemporary cognitive neuroscience can clear up parts of the mystery. Aside from the intrinsic interest of the subject matter, the book provides a case-study of how cognitive neuroscientists can successfully go about their business. After cleaning up taxonomy, the second step to clarity is to discard the common sense model of visual recognition as a process of matching sensory inputs directly to concepts. The interpretive chapters in Visual Agnosia There are some loose ends. It is unclear what it means to say simultanagnosics can perceive just "one object" at a time. It is unsettling to find that dorsal simultanagnosics can perceive the shape of one object, and spatial relations among parts of one object, but not spatial relations among several objects. Some clinical syndromes remain paradoxical even after one absorbs the idea of "higher level" visual representations. Optic aphasia is the prime example. Patients specifically lack the ability to

26. Agnosia - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Object agnosia is the inability to recognize objects. Subtypes Form agnosia Patients perceive only parts of details, not the whole object. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosia

Wikimedia needs your help in the final days of its fund drive. See our fundraising page Over US$225,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August. Thank you for your generosity! Agnosia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Agnosia a-gnosis , "non-knowledge") is a loss of ability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes or smells while the specific sense is not defective nor is there any significant memory loss. It is usually associated with brain injury or neurological illness , particularly after damage to the temporal lobe Visual agnosia is associated with lesions of the left occipital lobe and temporal lobes. Many patients have severe visual field defects. Object Agnosia is the inability to recognize objects. Subtypes: Form agnosia : Patients perceive only parts of details, not the whole object. Simultagnosia : Patients recognize objects or details but only one at the time. They cannot make out the scene they belong to or make out a whole image out of the details. They literally cannot see the forest for the trees. Associative Agnosia : Patients can describe visual scenes and classes of objects but still fail to recognize them. He may, for example, know that fork is something you eat with but may mistake it for a spoon.

27. Associative Agnosia - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia People with associative agnosia fail in assigning meaning to an object, animal or building that they can see clearly. Most cases have injury to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative_Agnosia

Wikimedia needs your help in the final days of its fund drive. See our fundraising page Over US$225,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August. Thank you for your generosity! Associative Agnosia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. People with associative agnosia fail in assigning meaning to an object, animal or building that they can see clearly. Most cases have injury to the occipital and temporal lobes and the critical site of injury appears to be in the left occipito-temporal region, often with involvement of the splenium of the corpus callosum . The clinical "definition" of the disorder is when an affected person is able to copy/draw things that they cannot recognise. The disorder appears to be very uncommon in a "pure" or uncomplicated form and is usually accompanied by other complex neuropsychological problems such as impaired language or memory . The affected individual may not realise that they have a visual problem and may complain of becoming "clumsy" or "muddled" when performing familiar tasks such as setting the table or simple DIY. There has been debate about whether the fundamental problem in associative agnosia implicates Higher-order visual perception - perhaps in integrating the parts of an object into a structured whole A disconnection syndrome - a failure of linking vision and perception with language Damage to a modality-specific meaning process (semantic system).

28. Agnosia Definition - Medical Dictionary Definitions Of Popular Medical Terms Online Medical Dictionary and glossary with medical definitions. http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=11023

29. Visual Agnosia Visual agnosia is a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to Most cases of visual agnosia are brought about through cerebral vascular http://hubel.sfasu.edu/courseinfo/SL02/visual_agnosia.htm

An Examination of Visual Agnosia By Candace N. Palmer Stephen F. Austin State University Spring 2002 Return to Class front page. Imagine a researcher requesting you to copy a picture. It's a simple task. You move your instrument of illustration across a sheet of blank paper with ease, glancing from the given picture to your own sketch in progress. When you are finished you observe a satisfactory replica and feel a sense of accomplishment and proficiency with the similarity you have achieved between picture and sketch. Then the researcher queries whether you can tell him what you have drawn. You search the interconnected lines, the edges, and the shapes of your sketch but cannot answer what the picture represents. Finally, an explanation is given. You have just drawn a house- a simple triangle resting on top of a square. Your sense of accomplishment is quickly replaced with a feeling of despair. Agnosia has been diagnosed in patients with all kinds of brain damage. Cases have been noted after both unilateral and bilateral damage to both the right and left hemispheres of the brain (Humohreys 1999). Patients with impairments to recognize faces usually have bilateral inferior lesions to the brain and occasionally have unilateral right hemisphere lesions (Humphreys 1999). Patients who exhibit impairments with word recognition usually have unilateral left inferior lesions to the brain. Those who exhibit impairments in both word recognition and face recognition usually exhibit bilateral lesions (Farah 1999).

30. Visual Agnosia Webpage Unfortunately, object recognition disorders such as agnosia comprise a Farah, MJ Visual agnosia Disorders of Object Recognition and What They Tell Us http://hubel.sfasu.edu/courseinfo/SL02/cp2agnosia.htm

A Research Proposal: The Effect of Object Presentation on Object Labeling and Copying Ability in Subjects with Right and Left Hemisphere Damage Candace N. Palmer Stephen F. Austin State University April 29, 2002 Currently, researchers are taking new approaches in determining which account of visual agnosia best explains the syndrome. Through experimentation, researchers have been attempting to simulate visual agnosia in subjects with normal vision in order to move beyond individual case studies with agnosia patients. Given the vast differences of impairments between patients with visual agnosia, the lack of clarity in defining categories of visual agnosia, and the failure to formulate a proficient explanation of the cognitive mechanisms behind the hidden perceptual processes that are involved in the syndrome of visual agnosia, it can be concluded that further research is desperately needed. Nevertheless, experiments such as the peppery mask experiments and the grouping-deficit account yield significant pieces of a puzzle that show encouraging signs of fitting together to enhance our understanding and advancement of knowledge surrounding object recognition disorders. Method Participants Participants will be individuals diagnosed with visual agnosia randomly selected from a compilation of visual agnosia patients in the United States. A total of 20 individuals will be randomly selected from all visual agnosia patients who respond to an invitation to participate. The total of 20 individuals will include 10 individuals marked by a left hemisphere lesion and 10 individuals marked by a right hemisphere lesion.

31. Agnosia agnosia is loss of the ability to discriminate one sensation from another. http://neurology.health-cares.net/agnosia.php

32. Clinical Neuropsychology agnosia This refers to the inability to recognize people or objects even For example, patients with visual agnosia may not recognize an object upon http://nanonline.org/nandistance/mtbi/ClinNeuro/agnosia.html

Course Home Page Course Syllabus Course Modules Case Studies Resources Neuroanatomy Atlas Neurological Disorders Behavioral Neuropsychology Acalculia Agnosia Visual Auditory Somatosensory Amnestic Syndromes ... References Communication WWW Links e-mail Links Message Board NAN NAN Home Page NAN distanCE info@nanonline.org National Academy of Neuropsychology. Behavioral Neuropsychology Agnosia Figure Caption: Sensory areas of the cortex. Represented here are somatosensory perception (touch, hot/cold, position), vision and hearing. The dark blue sections represents brain areas that mediate the association of these perceptions. The colored areas in the figure on the right depict the injured areas of the occiptal and temporal lobes associated with prosopagnosia (inability to recognize faces). A gnosia: This refers to the inability to recognize people or objects even when basic sensory modalities, such as vision, are intact. For example, patients with visual agnosia may not recognize an object upon visual presentation even though they can describe its shape and other visual characteristics. It is apparent that sensory perception of the object is disconnected from memories associated with the object. The patient can perceive the object but has no meaningful associations to it.

33. Agnosia: Definition And Much More From Answers.com ag·no·sia ( agno zh? ) n. Loss of the ability to interpret sensory stimuli, such as sounds or images. http://www.answers.com/topic/agnosia

showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Health ... More... On this page: Dictionary Medical Obscure WordNet Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping agnosia Dictionary ag·no·sia ăg-nō zhə n. Loss of the ability to interpret sensory stimuli, such as sounds or images. [Greek agnōsiā , ignorance : a- , without; see a– gnōsis , knowledge (from gignōskein , to know).] Medical ag·no·sia ăg-nō zhə n. Loss of the ability to interpret sensory stimuli, such as sounds or images. Obscure agnosia /ag NO zhia/ [Psych] Freud's term for loss of perception; e.g., prosopagnosia - an inability to recognize faces, autotopagnosia - the inability to localize and name the part's of one's own body WordNet Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words. The noun agnosia has one meaning: Meaning #1 inability to recognize objects by use of the senses Wikipedia agnosia Agnosia a-gnosis , "non-knowledge") is a loss of ability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes or smells while the specific sense is not defective nor is there any significant memory loss. It is usually associated with brain injury or neurological illness , particularly after damage to the temporal lobe Visual agnosia is associated with lesions of the left occipital lobe and temporal lobes. Many patients have severe visual field defects.

34. Neuroexam.com - Calculations, Right-Left Confusion, Finger Agnosia, Agraphia Finger agnosia. Can the patient name and identify each digit? Agraphia. Right–left confusion and finger agnosia can both be quickly screened for with http://www.neuroexam.com/content.php?p=8

35. Visual Agnosia To stama@asap.unimelb.edu.au ; Subject visual agnosia; From Margaret Lucrezi mlucrezi@email.msn.com ; Date Thu, 26 Nov 1998 100111 0500 http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/asa/stama/mail/msg00237.html

[Prev] [Next] [Index] [Thread] visual agnosia To stama@asap.unimelb.edu.au Subject : visual agnosia From mlucrezi@email.msn.com Date : Thu, 26 Nov 1998 10:01:11 -0500 Sender : owner-stama Dear Sirs/Madame; I am a student at Cleveland State University doing a paper on visual agnosia. I am looking for information as to when visual agnosia was first discovered and how. Any information you could give me would be greatly be appreciated. Margaret Lucrezi Prev: Neuroscience History web address/URL changes: HISTNEUR-L, ISHN, RETICULUM, etc. Next: TR: Filing Documents Index(es): Main Thread

36. Information Of Visual Agnosia To stama@asap.unimelb.edu.au; Subject Information of Visual agnosia; From Linda Pimblett l.pimblett@student.murdoch.edu.au ; Date Mon, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/asa/stama/mail/msg00268.html

[Prev] [Next] [Index] [Thread] Information of Visual Agnosia To stama@asap.unimelb.edu.au Subject : Information of Visual Agnosia From l.pimblett@student.murdoch.edu.au Date : Mon, 29 Mar 1999 18:55:38 +0800 Sender : owner-stama Hi my name is Linda Pimblett, I am a student at Murdoch University. I am writing a paper on the history of visual agnosia and also the current research that is investigating this phenomena. Your help on any Info would be greatly appreciated. Thankyou for your time Linda Pimblett I may be contacted at lptaz@hotmail.com or l.pimblett@student.murdoch.edu.au Prev: Archives grants for physics and allied fields expanded Next: Some sudden question ... Index(es): Main Thread

37. Agnosia Speech perception in an individual with verbal auditory agnosia Integrative agnosia following progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy http://www.ability.org.uk/Agnosia.html

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38. AGNOSIA agnosia. Broader Terms. COGNITIVEIMPAIRMENT NEUROLOGIC-MANIFESTATIONS. Scope Note. Loss of the ability to recognize the significance of sensory stimuli http://www.alzheimers.org/chid/00000167.htm

Search on This Term Main Index TopTerm Index Term Index Prev Term: AGITATION Next Term: AIDS AGNOSIA Broader Terms: COGNITIVE-IMPAIRMENT NEUROLOGIC-MANIFESTATIONS Scope Note: Loss of the ability to recognize the significance of sensory stimuli; the failure to recognize people or things or to interpret speech. Subject Categories: [D] Disease, Symptoms, and Pathological Processes [I] Psychological and Social Behaviors and Characteristics

39. Agnosia – Literally, Loss Of The Ability To Discriminate One agnosia – Literally, loss of the ability to discriminate one sensation from another. agnosia is usually the result of some form of brain trauma. http://www.psybox.com/web_dictionary/Agnosia.htm

40. Neurology -- Collected Resources : Agnosia Gustatory agnosia DM Small, N. Bernasconi, A. Bernasconi, V. Sziklas, and M. JonesGotman Neurology 2005; 64 311-317. Abstract Full text PDF http://www.neurology.org/cgi/collection/agnosia

HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ... SEARCH RESULT QUICK SEARCH: [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year: Vol: Page: Agnosia Citations 1-6 of 6 total displayed. Most recent content (22 Feb 2005): ARTICLES Unawareness of cognitive deficit (cognitive anosognosia) in probable AD and control subjects Anna M. Barrett, Paul J. Eslinger, Noel H. Ballentine, and Kenneth M. Heilman Neurology 2005; 64: 693-699. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] Past content (since Oct 2001): ARTICLES Gustatory agnosia D. M. Small, N. Bernasconi, A. Bernasconi, V. Sziklas, and M. Jones-Gotman Neurology 2005; 64: 311-317. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] ARTICLES Naming and recognizing famous faces in temporal lobe epilepsy G. Glosser, A.E. Salvucci, and N.D. Chiaravalloti Neurology 2003; 61: 81-86. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS Simultanagnosia through the eyes of an artist Wade S. Smith, Robert E. Mindelzun, and Bruce Miller Neurology 2003; 60: 1832-1834. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS Recognition of familiar handwriting in stroke and dementia Neurology 2001; 57: 2128-2131.

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