Awareness of Deficit After Brain Injury: Clinical and Theoretical Issues - Hardcover

Prigatano, George P.; Schacter, Daniel L.

 
9780195059410: Awareness of Deficit After Brain Injury: Clinical and Theoretical Issues
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0195059417 ISBN 13: 9780195059410
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA, 1991

Synopsis

This volume provides, for the first time, multidisciplinary perspectives on the problem of awareness of deficits following brain injury. Such deficits may involve perception, attention, memory, language, or motor functions, and they can seriously disrupt an individual's ability to function. However, some brain-damaged patients are entirely unaware of the existence of their deficits, even when they are severe and easily noticed by others. In addressing these topics, contributors cover the entire range of neuropsychological syndromes in which problems with awareness of deficit are observed: hemiplegia and hemianopia, amnesia, aphasia, traumatic head injury, dementia, and others. On the clinical side, leading researchers delineate the implications of awareness of deficits for rehabilitation and patient management, and the role of defence mechanisms such as denial. Theoretical discussions focus on the importance of awareness disturbances for better understanding such cognitive processes as attention, consciousness, and monitoring.

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From the Back Cover

The editors of this volume shared a common interest in exploring what they felt was an important clinical and theoretical phenomenon: altered awareness after brain injury. Clinical experience indicated that brain-injured patients are often unaware of the very deficits that impair their performance in everyday life. This book explores these issues in hopes that the information obtained from studying disorders of self-awareness will ultimately lead not only to greater scientific insights into the nature of disturbed awareness following injury, but also to improved rehabilitation of patients with brain dysfunctions.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press USA
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195059417
ISBN 13 
9780195059410
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
286