Awareness of deficit after brain injury : clinical and theoretical issues
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Awareness of deficit after brain injury : clinical and theoretical issues
Oxford University Press, 1991
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This volume provides, for the first time, multidisciplinary perspectives on the problem of awareness of deficits following brain injury. Such deficits may involve perception, attention, memory, language, or motor functions, and they can seriously disrupt an individual's ability to function. However, some brain-damaged patients are entirely unaware of the existence of their deficits, even when they are severe and easily noticed by others. In addressing these topics,
contributors cover the entire range of neuropsychological syndromes in which problems with awareness of deficit are observed: hemiplegia and hemianopia, amnesia, aphasia, traumatic head injury, dementia, and others. On the clinical side, leading researchers delineate the implications of awareness of
deficits for rehabilitation and patient management, and the role of defence mechanisms such as denial. Theoretical discussions focus on the importance of awareness disturbances for better understanding such cognitive processes as attention, consciousness, and monitoring.
Table of Contents
- George P. Prigatano & Daniel L. Schacter: Introduction
- Edoardo Bisiach & Guiliano Geminiani: Anosognosia related to hemiplegia and hemianopia
- Alan B. Rubens: Anosognosia of linguistic deficits in patients with neurological deficits
- Kenneth M. Heilman: Anosognosia: Possible neuropsychological mechanisms
- Donald T. Stuss: Disturbance of self-awareness after frontal system damage
- Susan M. McGlynn & Alfred W. Kaszniak: Unawareness of deficits in dementia and schizophrenia
- George P. Prigatano: Disturbances of self-awareness of deficit after traumatic brain injury
- Daniel L. Schacter: Unawareness of deficit and unawareness of knowledge in patients with memory disorders
- Elkhonon Goldberg & William B. Barr: Three possible mechanisms of unawareness of deficit
- Marcia K. Johnson: Reality monitoring: Evidence from confabulation in organic brain disease patients
- John F. Kihlstrom & Betsy A. Tobias: Anosognosia, consciousness, and the self
- Lisa Lewis: The role of psychological factors in disordered awareness
- Edwin A. Weinstein: Anosognosia and denial of illness
- Daniel L. Schacter & George P. Prigatano: Forms of unawareness.
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