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Agnosia — For the Spanish film, see Agnosía. Agnosia Classification and external resources ICD 10 R48.1 ICD 9 … Wikipedia
autotopagnosia — Inability to recognize or to orient any part of one s own body; caused by a parietal lobe lesion. Cf.:somatotopagnosis. [auto + G. topos, place, + G. a priv. + gnosis] * * * au·to·top·ag·no·sia .ȯt ō .täp ig nō zhə n loss of the power to… … Medical dictionary
Autotopagnosia — is agnosia that affects the sense of posture. It is characterized by an inability to localize and orient different parts of the body. Autotopagnosia s cause is usually a lesion in the non dominant parietal lobe or damage to the posterior thalamic … Wikipedia
nervous system, human — ▪ anatomy Introduction system that conducts stimuli from sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord and that conducts impulses back to other parts of the body. As with other higher vertebrates, the human nervous system has two main… … Universalium
Glossary of psychiatry — In this glossary of psychiatric terms, mostly Greek, secondly French and German and some English terms, as used in psychiatric literature, were defined. We have included many other terms with the passage of time and aim to broaden this article to … Wikipedia
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Gerstmann's syndrome — Gerst·mann s syndrome gerst mənz n cerebral dysfunction characterized esp. by finger agnosia, disorientation with respect to right and left, agraphia, and acalculia and caused by a lesion in the dominant cerebral hemisphere involving the angular… … Medical dictionary
Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition — Object recognition is the ability to perceive an object’s physical properties (such as shape, colour and texture) and apply semantic attributes to the object, which includes the understanding of its use, previous experience with the object and… … Wikipedia
Memory disorder — Memory can be defined as an organism s ability to encode, retain, and recall information. Disorders of memory can range from mild to severe, yet are all a result of damage to neuroanatomical structures; either in part or in full. This damage… … Wikipedia
nervous system disease — Introduction any of the diseases or disorders that affect the functioning of the human nervous system (nervous system, human). Everything that humans sense, consider, and effect and all the unlearned reflexes of the body depend on the… … Universalium
