Agnosia is a rare condition in which an affected individual is unable to recognise and identify objects, persons, sounds, shapes or smells even though the affected sense is not defective and there is ...

Ready to dive into the plot? Here's the plot: "The protagonist is a young woman, Joan Prats suffering from agnosia, a strange, primary visual disease that is one of the neuropsychological disorders of ...

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Most of us have had an experience like this: we turn our heads to the side in bed and see a strange shape. It has a weird line to it, and it’s an odd color, and it’s suspended in a strange way. We’re ...

UNTIL ABOUT 35 years ago scientists believed there was only a single visual-processing area, called the visual cortex, situated at the back of the brain. We now know more than 30 areas in the brains ...

A study examining the brain of a person with object agnosia, a defect in the inability to recognize objects, is providing a unique window into the sophisticated brain mechanisms critical for object ...

As dementia develops, patients are often robbed of their independence due to debilitating confusion. Sometimes agnosia is the cause of disorientation, thwarting patients' perception of people and ...

Finger agnosia is the inability to recognize and distinguish your fingers or someone else’s. It may appear alone or it may be combined with other conditions as part of Gerstmann syndrome. Agnosia is ...