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Awareness of deficit after brain injury : clinical and theoretical issues / edited by George P. Prigatano, Daniel L. Schacter. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1991. - x, 271 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 0195059417 (alk. paper) : $49.95

LCCN: 90006782

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Brain damage.
Anosognosia.
Brain Injuries--complications.
Cognition.
Cognition Disorders--etiology.

LC Class. No.: RC387.5 / .A93 1991

Dewey Class. No.: 617.481 PRI S

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WL 341 A964