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	Anosognosia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anosognosia is a condition in which a person who suffers disability due to brain injury, seems unaware of or denies the existence of their handicap.
		Anosognosia is thought to be related to unilateral neglect, a condition often found after damage to the non-dominant (usually the right) hemisphere of the cerebral cortex in which sufferers seem unable to attend to, or sometimes comprehend, anything on a certain side of their body (usually the left).
		Although largely used to describe unawareness of impairment after brain injury, the term 'anosognosia' is now also used to describe the lack of insight shown by some people who suffer from psychosis, and who may be unaware that their outlandish beliefs and experiences are in any way unusual.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anosognosia (517 words)

	Anosognosia for Hemiplegia: A Window into Self-Awareness
		You are suffering from anosognosia, a condition in which an ill patient is unaware of her own illness or the deficits resulting from her illness (1).
		Anosognosia occurs at least temporarily in over 50% of stroke victims who suffer from paralysis on the side of the body opposite the stroke, a condition known as hemiplegia (1).
		Another explanation of anosognosia draws on the fact that this disorder and hemiplegia are nearly always accompanied by hemispatial neglect, in which the patient does not recognize or attend to visual information on the side of the visual field contralateral to the brain damage (6).
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /bb/neuro/neuro03/web2/cstearns.html (1787 words)

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		Anosognosia becomes a “drive to be well” or a means of self-protection against the realities of serious damage and alteration.
		Anosognosia was first recognized and named by Babinski in 1914, from observations of a peculiar lack of self-awareness of cognitive and behavioral impairments in patients suffering from left-sided hemiplegia and hemianopia.
		Anosognosia is most evident in the pre-contemplation stage, when people entering into TBI treatment do not think they have a problem or deficit, or do not want to change.
	www.visionsofadonai.com /bc/wwwriters/anosognosia.html (8048 words)

	Redefining the Self, Drs Hal and Sidra Stone
		Anosognosia is defined as the inability to recognize the state of illness in one's own organism.
		The researchers proposed that anosognosia might be a result of a defense mechanism that attempts to protect the individual from knowledge of their illness and thereby avoiding possible depression.
		Furthermore, it suggests that anosognosia may have special relevance to phenomenal consciousness because it may represent a clinical pathologic state in which there is a fundamental alteration or distortion of the personal self.
	www.delos-inc.com /Reading_Room/Articles/redefiningTheSelf.htm (1806 words)

	Anosognosia: examining the disconnection hypothesis -- Adair et al. 63 (6): 798 -- Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, ...
		asymmetries of anosognosia for hemiparesis, as the inherently
		Anosognosia for hemiplegia: an electrophysiological investigation of the feed-forward hypothesis.
		Dissociation of anosognosia for hemiplegia and aphasia during left-hemisphere anesthesia.
	jnnp.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/63/6/798 (1662 words)

	Functional Imaging Provides Insight Into the Neural Substrate of Anosognosia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In addition, the magnitude of decreased glucose uptake in the anterior cingulate cortex correlated with the severity of the anosognosia score.
		However, “we have a battery of other tests to assess denial, and the question of denial is also addressed by interviews with the family,” she observed.
		Anosognosia in mild Alzheimer’s disease: revelations by FDG-PET.
	www.neuropsychiatryreviews.com /feb03/npr_feb03_anosog.html (489 words)

	Poor insight in schizophrenia: neurocognitive basis. Lele MV, Joglekar AS J Postgrad Med
		In other instances, the patient will reveal delusional ideas (insisting, for e.g., that the limb is someone else’s), presumably to explain the dissociation between his or her experience of self and his or her perceptions[15].
		It is most often distinguished from motivated denial (psychological defense) in that anosognosia is thought to stem from a neuro-psychological deficit that leaves a patient unable to become aware of the signs of their illness[9].
		In neurological disorders, neuroanatomically based theories of anosognosia can be broadly divided into those that attribute this deficit to focal brain lesions, and those that attribute it to diffuse brain damage[9].
	www.jpgmonline.com /article.asp?issn=0022-3859;year=1998;volume=44;issue=2;spage=50;epage=5;aulast=Lele (3243 words)

	Denial
		As Dr. Ramachandran describes it, anosognosia is a condition in which the patient does not just ignore his or her paralysis, but actively denies it "in spite of...
		Ramachandran's explanation for anosognosia says that this form of denial is a way of coping with an insufferable contradiction that confronts stroke patients; their paralysis is an incompatible, identity-threatening anomaly that contradicts their prior experience of themselves and their milieu.
		Anosognosia involves a breakdown of anomaly detection, so the patient is truly unaware of his paralysis and consequent disabilities.
	healthandenergy.com /denying_reality.htm (6469 words)

	Issues NAMI tracks
		Anosognosia ("anasugNOHZeeah") or lack of awareness of one's mental illness is another biologically based symptom like hallucinations or delusions.
		Individuals suffering from anosognosia are frequently homeless, incarcerated, noncompliant, violent, refuse treatment, and they are often caught in the revolving door of a fragmented mental health system and become candidates for Kendra's Law.
		The 40-50% of the chronically mentally ill suffering from anosognosia are by definition not part of the peer movement and therefore not served by peer-directed programming.
	www.naminycmetro.org /lackinsight.htm (801 words)

	Brain Hemisphere Specialization, Autism & Anosognosia.
		Anosognosia usually happens to people who have been paralyzed from the effects of a stroke in the right hemisphere of their brain.
		An interesting experiment performed by Ramachandran was based on the findings of the Italian scientist Eduardo Bisiach, who showed that pouring cold water into the left ear would temporarily allow the patients to acknowledge their condition.
		The main reason behind my attempt to explain anosognosia is to show the reader how important it is for the brain to generate a coherent model of reality, and the extent to which we shape our beliefs to make them consistent with this structure.
	www.geocities.com /player2000gi/hemispheric_specialization.htm (2029 words)

	Anesthesia, anosognosia
		I think that their comparison between amaurosis fugax and and hemianopic anosognosia, both visual deficits, could have helped extend their point on the difference between consciously perceived visual deficits and deficits that were not processed consciously.
		The article on hemianopic anosognosia was difficult to understand because I wasn't familiar with the medical terminology at all, but I think they had some very interesting conclusions.
		Critchley in the other paper asserted that hemianopic anosognosias varied along a spectrum of total absence of awareness to relative degrees of awareness for their deficits.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /bb/consciousness/week6A.html (3041 words)

	Anosognosia Points
		The reason anosognosia is a window on human consciousness is due to the peculiar fact that the patient's perception is incongruent with his or her actual circumstance.
		The rule is, "No movement, no perception." Thus, the primary defect in anosognosia, is the absence of a repertoire of movement for the left arm of the body scheme, which effectively eliminates the left arm from existence so far as conscious and unconscious awareness is concerned.
		First of all, this indicates that anosognosia is generally not due to the destruction of one or another specific set of neurons.
	home.earthlink.net /~icedneuron/Anosognosia_Points.htm (1284 words)

	The Barrow Quarterly Article 11-4-2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Anosognosia has been traditionally associated with denial of left hemiplegia and a parietal lobe lesion, and with denial of blindness and localization in the visual cortex.
		Patients with anosognosia after left hemisphere lesions are either not aphasic or have jargon or verbal stereotypy.
		Anosognosia is usually thought of as a temporary phenomenon that clears in a matter of weeks after an acute lesion.
	www.emergemd.com /bniq2/article.asp?article_ref_id=11-4-2 (7040 words)

	Anosognosia Poster - Tucson 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Anosognosia appears to be one of a family of body schema disorders.
		Anosognosia is inexplicable in terms of the sensationalist doctrine.
		Anosognosia for left hemiplegia is explicable as a disorder of right hemisphere neural processing in conjunction with an inability of the left hemisphere to specify affordances for the left body/world.
	home.earthlink.net /~icedneuron/Anosognosia_Tucson.htm (2157 words)

	Scientific American: Mind Over Body (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Anosognosia has long fascinated cognitive scientists because it suggests that perception and self-awareness may be distinct functions carried out by separate parts of the brain.
		Anosognosia usually occurs among people who have suffered a stroke in the right hemisphere of their brains that has made them unable to use their left arms or legs.
		In one preliminary result, he found that an anosognosic patient would acknowledge her paralysis if he injected her left arm with an inert saline solution but told her it was a paralyzing anesthetic.
	www.sciam.com /print_version.cfm?articleID=0002D266-A612-1C76-9B81809EC588EF21 (718 words)

	details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Anosognosia, meaning "unawareness of illness," is a syndrome commonly seen in people with serious mental illness and some neurological disorders, according to Xavier Amador, Ph.D..
		It was his experience as a clinician and as a brother of someone with schizophrenia, Amador said, that led him to do research on anosognosia, "which is not to be confused with denial," he emphasized, although in the beginning, he did not make that distinction.
		Amador urged family members and mental health professionals to understand that collaboration with treatment by someone who has a severe mental illness and anosognosia is a goal, not a given.
	www.webcom.com /net/namibucks/details.htm (773 words)

	Experimental Philosophy: Anosognosia and Self-Deception (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Anosognosia is denial of illness: sufferers deny that they experience an impairment, even when it is glaringly obvious.
		Typically, stroke patients with anosognosia experience left-side paralysis, which can be extremely extensive, but deny its existence.
		First, there is the fact that vestibular stimulation (pouring cold water in the patient's ear) can, oddly enough, lead them to acknowledge the paralysis, and, moreover, assert that their arm had been paralysed all along.
	experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com /experimental_philosophy/2004/06/anosognosia_and.html (1133 words)

	Briefing Paper: Law enforcement and people with severe mental illnesses
		This impaired awareness of illness is caused by damage to specific parts of the brain, and affects approximately 50 percent of individuals with schizophrenia and 40 percent of individuals with bipolar disorder.
		The term used by neurologists is “anosognosia,” which comes from the Greek word for disease (nosos) and knowledge (gnosis).
		The term “anosognosia” was first used by a French neurologist in 1914.
	www.psychlaws.org /BriefingPapers/BP14.htm (789 words)

	www.unabombertrial.com / court documents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Patient's with anosognosia usually believe that they do not have the illness that their doctors tell them they have.
		Kaczynski suffers from anosognosia and that is the primary reason he has refused the court ordered evaluation.
		If the patient with anosognosia does not perceive the evaluation as a challenge to his self-concept (his understanding of his innate capacities and abilities), he will usually submit without argument.
	www.unabombertrial.com /documents/amador111697.html (2828 words)

	Psychiatric News
		Anosognosia, meaning "unawareness of illness," is a syndrome commonly seen in people with serious mental illness and some neurological disorders, according to Xavier Amador, Ph.D., who spoke at the 2001 convention of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill in Washington, D.C., in July.
		Amador then supplied the court with mounting evidence that Kaczynski's refusal to be evaluated related to anosognosia, a manifestation of Kaczynski's schizophrenia.
		Amador urged family members and mental health professionals at the NAMI meeting to understand that collaboration with treatment by someone who has a severe mental illness and anosognosia is a goal, not a given.
	www.psychlaws.org /GeneralResources/article55.htm (1166 words)

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		"A patient with anosognosia may be severely impaired, yet he will have no inkling of it and will continue to claim that everything is fine.
		This is different from being "in denial," which is assumed that the patient has the capacity to comprehend his own deficit but "chooses" to look the other way.
		Anosognosia, "unawareness of illness," is a syndrome commonly seen in people with serious mental illness and some neurological disorders.
	www.lackofinsightmi.org (1096 words)

	Discover: The brain that misplaced its body - the condition called anosognosia - Cover Story on LookSmart Junior High
		M.'s claim would be peculiar enough if her son were in the room, but he is miles away, unaware that in his mother's mind his hand has become attached to her arm.
		(The term anosognosia derives from nosos and gnosis, the Greek words for "disease" and "knowledge.") One of the best-known victims of the condition was Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas, who suffered a right-hemisphere stroke in 1974 that paralyzed his left side and eventually forced his retirement.
		M.'s form of anosognosia is even more extreme: she not only flatly denies she is paralyzed, she refuses to admit that the limp limb on the left has anything at all to do with her.
	www.gradewinner.com /p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n5_v16/ai_16914800#continue (718 words)

	Sometimes, common sense morality belies what seems like reality - On Line Opinion - 27/10/2003
		Anosognosia is the product of a brain injury, usually as a result of a stroke.
		He hypothesises that the left hemisphere of the brain plays an important role in constructing a coherent image of ourselves, an image which is as close as possible to the idealised view of our self, while the right hemisphere has the role of detecting anomalies in our self-perception.
		Most obviously, the hypothesis ignores the fact that anosognosia is a member of a larger class of neurological deficits, called neglect.
	www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=817 (1799 words)

	Damn Interesting » Nothing is Wrong
		The term anosognosia literally means "unaware of illness" and was coined by a French neurologist Joseph François Babinski in 1914.
		Anosognosia can be used to refer to any sort of ignorance of disease, as in hallucinations or delusions of schizophrenics and manic depressants, yet these are usually only partially impaired awareness.
		In the case of hemiplegics, anosognosia only accompanies damage to the right side of the brain, never on the left – if it was purely denial, there would be an equal chance of having anosognosia regardless of which hemisphere is damaged.
	www.damninteresting.com /?p=275#more-275 (1335 words)

	Dissociation of anosognosia and phantom movement during the Wada test -- Lu et al. 69 (6): 820 -- Journal of Neurology, ...
		Anosognosia, or unawareness of deficit, can occur in patients with hemiplegia, amnesia, or aphasia.
		movements or anosognosia late in the course of the study.
		Anosognosia of linguistic deficits in patients with neurological deficits.
	jnnp.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/69/6/820 (1696 words)

	Schizophrenia.com - Biology and Research; neurologic basis for poor insight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Generally developing secondary to a specific lesion (such as focal traumatic brain injury) or diffuse brain damage (such as a stroke), anosognosia is an acknowledged neurological deficit.
		Lele and Joglekar (1998) have carried the analogy further, pointing out that both anosognosia and poor insight in schizophrenia can be either generalized (relating to all aspects of the disease) or domain-specific (patient is aware of certain symptoms or functional deficits, but not others).
		While the deficit in cases of anosognosia is related to either focal or diffuse brain damage, it has not yet been proven that impaired frontal lobe functioning is a causal explanation for poor insight.
	www.schizophrenia.com /insightbiology.htm (4095 words)

	research
		Anosognosia reflects lack in the same way as “anonymous” means without a name, or “anorexia” means without appetite.
		In the case of anosoognosia, it means the inability of our dear ones to comprehend that some of the exceptional feelings, thoughts and behaviors they experience are due to a mental illness.
		The understanding of mental illnesses as biological disorders and the nature of anosognosia started with studies done by Emil Kraepelin, (Dementia Praecox and Paraphenia -Edinburgh: E. Living-Stone, 1919/1971) vol, 4, page 212) and Eugene Bleueler, which established that schizophrenia is an illness of the frontal lobes.
	www.lackofinsightmi.org /research.htm (1815 words)

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