Agnosia
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For the Spanish film, see Agnosia (film). For the moth genus, see Agnosia (moth).
Agnosia is a neurological disorder characterized by an inability to process sensory information. Often there 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.[1] It is usually associated with brain injury or neurological illness, particularly after damage to the occipitotemporal border, which is part of the ventral stream.[2] Agnosia only affects a single modality,[3] such as vision or hearing.[4] More recently, a top-down interruption is considered to cause the disturbance of handling perceptual information.[5]
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Agnosia causes loss of the ability to recognize or comprehend the meaning of objects even with intact senses. | |
Specialty | Psychiatry, Neurology, Neuropsychology |
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