Unawareness of deficits in ischemic injury: Role of the cingulate cortex
| Autor: | Sara Palermo, Martina Amanzio, Daniela Leotta, M.R. Bongioanni |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Cingulate cortex
Male Vascular disease Disease Awareness Neuropsychological Tests medicine.disease Gyrus Cinguli Brain Ischemia Brain ischemia medicine.anatomical_structure Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) medicine Humans Neurology (clinical) Psychology Prefrontal cortex Acquired brain injury Neuroscience Anterior cingulate cortex Executive dysfunction Aged |
| Popis: | Reduced awareness of illness is a well-known phenomenon that has been studied in patients with vascular disease, but the precise nature of their executive dysfunction is an intriguing question that still has to be resolved. It would be particularly interesting to study patients with reduced awareness of disease possibly related to vascular lesions of the prefrontal cortex. Due to the clinical importance of the case, here we present a patient with a selective right anterior cingulate ischemic injury and impaired awareness of deficits. We suggest that the cingulo-frontal area dysfunction may represent one of the corresponding neurobiological substrates of his persistent unawareness, which has not yet been evaluated in the literature on patients with acquired brain injury (ABI). |
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