Introduction
Agnosia is a sickness that could happen when the patient have damage in certain area of the brain. Agnosia is the conscious inability to identify sensory stimuli not due to deficits in sensory, verbal, or cognitive abilities. (Pinel, 2007). There are many different form of Agnosia even though popular cases base on to memory and visual perception. There are many cases of Agnosia cause by different cortial area impacted.
Agnosia will affected the patients to lose the ability to know or recognize or diffrentiate the meaning of stimuli even with intact senses. We know that agnosia could happen to every stage of human life. There many type of agnosia, such as when someone cannot recognize faces that sickness call prospagnosia. Then when we lost ability to observe facial expression or body language, this problem is defines as social emotional agnosia. Tactile agnosia is one of a type of agnosia which refer to the cognitive abilities. This problem happen when someone loses ability to process the meaning from touches senses.
If someone have been diagnosed by the agnosia , they can take different types of therapies that may help to reduce the effect of agnosia. One of the therapies is patient will be presented with stimulus to the impaired modality which will help increase their awareness (Pinel, 2007)
This project will help us to know better about Agnosia diseases so in future we can create some awareness to everybody. We hope we can help Agnosia patient to understand their problem so they can live better in their life.
Agnosia and it’s type
As we know, agnosia is something that caused by brain damage. It can happen with other neurological disorders and in fact, it can be sign that the patient is experiencing a neur...
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...ut a 7 years old girl which loss her ability to understand speech. She had a normal hearing and understood various environmental sounds. Her brain was computerized using axial tomography but the result was normal. But electroencephalogram showed wave activity from her left side of the temporal leads. She was diagnose as having verbal auditory agnosia. The treatment consisted of diazepam therapy. Diazepam therapy orally began with taking 2 mg diazepam every day. Diazepam is commonly used to treat anxiety,panic attacks,insomnia and some other medical issues. One year later, her impaired auditory was dramatically improved. The dichotic listening test revealed a left ear advantage for both environmental sounds and spoken words. The results seemed to suggest that in this patient the right hemisphere might be functioning as a speech center instead of the left one.
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