Awareness of deficit after brain injury : clinical and theoretical issues

Prigatano, George P. (Added Author). Schacter, Daniel L. (Added Author).

Summary: 1. Introduction, George P. Prigatano and Daniel L. Schacter. 2. Anosognosia Related to Hemiplegia and Hemianopia, Edoardo Bisiach and Guiliano Geminiani. 3. Anosognosia of Linguistic Deficits in Patients with Neurological Deficits, Alan B. Rubens. 4. Anosognosia: Possible Neuropsychological Mechanisms, Kenneth M. Heilman. 5. Disturbance of Self-Awareness After Frontal System Damage, Donald T. Stuss. 6. Unawareness of Deficits in Dementia and Schizophrenia, Susan M. McGlynn and Alfred W. Kaszniak. 7. Disturbances of Self-Awareness of Deficit After Traumatic Brain Injury, George P. Prigatano. 8.

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ISBN: 0198022573
ISBN: 9780198022572
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 271 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations (some color)
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Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction, George P. Prigatano and Daniel L. Schacter -- 2. Anosognosia Related to Hemiplegia and Hemianopia, Edoardo Bisiach and Guiliano Geminiani -- 3. Anosognosia of Linguistic Deficits in Patients with Neurological Deficits, Alan B. Rubens -- 4. Anosognosia: Possible Neuropsychological Mechanisms, Kenneth M. Heilman -- 5. Disturbance of Self-Awareness After Frontal System Damage, Donald T. Stuss -- 6. Unawareness of Deficits in Dementia and Schizophrenia, Susan M. McGlynn and Alfred W. Kaszniak -- 7. Disturbances of Self-Awareness of Deficit After Traumatic Brain Injury, George P. Prigatano -- 8. Unawareness of Deficit and Unawareness of Knowledge in Patients with Memory Disorders, Daniel L. Schacter -- 9. Three Possible Mechanisms of Unawareness of Deficit, Elkhonon Goldberg and William B. Barr -- 10. Reality Monitoring: Evidence from Confabulation in Organic Brain Disease Patients, Marcia K. Johnson -- 11. Anosognosia, Consciousness, and the Self, John F. Kihlstrom and Betsy A. Tobias -- 12. The Role of Psychological Factors in Disordered Awareness, Lisa Lewis -- 13. Anosognosia and Denial of Illness, Edwin A. Weinstein -- 14. Forms of Unawareness, Daniel L. Schacter and George P. Prigatano.
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