Agnosia is a rare disorder characterized by an inability to recognize and identify objects or persons.
Agnosia
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Agnosia (a-gnosis, "non-knowledge", or loss of 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.
Agnosia, Primary Visual
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Prosopagnosia is a medical condition which is characterized by an inability to perceive faces. It is commonly known as 'face blindness' — referring to an inability to remember faces, even those of people with whom one is familiar.
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agnosia Failure to recognize or identify objects despite intact sensory function; This may be seen in dementia of various types.
Agnosia: An inability to recognize sensory inputs (sight, sound, touch). The most common agnosia is a result of brain injury damaging the rear part of the brain causing visual agnosia (inability to properly recognize what one is seeing).
Prosopagnosia
A loss of the ability to identify members of complex categories such as faces.
Agnosia - Failure to recognize familiar objects although sensory mechanism is intact. May occur for any sensory modality.
Agnosia
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.
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Tetrad of finger agnosia, dysgraphia or agraphia, dyscalculia or acalculia, and right-left disorientation producing confusion of laterality of the body.
must experience memory loss that affects job skills, as well as one or more of the following symptoms: problems with physical activities (apraxia), problems with language (aphasia), problems with registering things presented to them (agnosia), ...
Doctors often refer to this problem as auditory agnosia or "word deafness." The auditory agnosia may occur slowly or very quickly. Parents often think that the child is developing a hearing problem or has become suddenly deaf.
The cognitive disorder in Huntington's disease is considered a "subcortical" syndrome and usually lacks features such as aphasia, amnesia, or agnosia that are associated with dementia of the Aizheimer's type.
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Early signs may be referred to as auditory agnosia, which includes the child:
suddenly having problems understanding what is said.
appearing to have problems with hearing - deafness may be suspected.
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temporal lobe: Cortical deafness Â- Prosopagnosia
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Cerebral dysfunction syndromes: Specific syndromes include agnosia, amnesia, aphasia, and apraxia. Psychiatric conditions (eg, depression, psychosis, anxiety disorders) sometimes include similar elements.
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is damaged, the result can be homonomous vision loss from similarly positioned "field cuts" in each eye. Occipital lesions can cause visual hallucinations. Lesions in the parietal-temporal-occipital association area are associated with color agnosia, ...
This is called "word deafness" or "verbal auditory agnosia" and it typically occurs in combination with an abnormal electroencephalogram that shows sleep-activated spike or spike and wave discharges.
associative agnosia
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three major components: optic ataxia (q.v.), or the impairment of visually-guided hand movements; ocular apraxia, or the inability to project voluntary gaze to certain points in the peripheral fields despite intact eye movements; and simultanagnosia, ...
Progressive simultanagnosia (See Posterior Cortical Atrophy)
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