Open AccessNeurodegeneration and mirror image agnosia
Author(s) -
Sadanandavalli Retnaswami Chandra,
Thomas Gregor Issac
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
north american journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2250-1541
pISSN - 1947-2714
DOI - 10.4103/1947-2714.141647
Subject(s) - agnosia , neuropsychology , percept , visual agnosia , cognitive psychology , psychosis , dementia , neurodegeneration , medicine , psychology , audiology , perception , identification (biology) , neuroscience , cognition , disease , pathology , psychiatry , biology , botany
Normal Percept with abnormal meaning (Agnosias) has been described from nineteenth century onwards. Later literature became abundant with information on the spectrum of Prosopagnosias. However, selective difficulty in identifying reflected self images with relatively better cognitive functions leads to problems in differentiating it from non-organic psychosis.