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Definition of the noun agnosia
What does agnosia mean as a name of something?
noun - plural: agnosias
- inability to recognize objects by use of the senses
- lexical domain: States - nouns denoting stable states of affairs
- more generic terms: brain disease / brain disorder / encephalopathy = any disorder or disease of the brain
- more specific terms:
- tactile agnosia / astereognosis = a loss of the ability to recognize objects by handling them
- auditory agnosia = inability to recognize or understand the meaning of spoken words
- visual agnosia = inability to recognize or interpret objects in the visual field
Film
"Agnosia": Agnosía is a Spanish baroque retro-futuristic thriller directed by Eugenio Mira and written by Antonio Trashorras.
- also known as Agnosía
- country: Spain
- languages: Spanish Language, German Language
- producers: Miguel Angel Faura & Isaac Torrás
- executive producers: Álvaro Augustín, Miguel Angel Faura, Javier Ugarte
- production design by Javier Alvariño
- art direction by Nina Caussà
- written by Antonio Trashorras, Coral Cruz, Javier Gullón & Eugenio Mira
- based on a story by Eugenio Mira & Antonio Trashorras
- starring:
- Martina Gedeck as Lucille Prevert
- Eduardo Noriega as Carles Lardín
- Barbara Goenaga as Joana Prats
- Jack Taylor as Meissner
- Félix Gómez as Vicent
- Luis Zahera as Mariano
- Sergi Mateu as Artur Prats
- Anna Sahun as Marga
- Nico Baixas as El calvo
- Santi Pons as Comisario Solozábal
- Miguel Berlanga as El gordo
- Miranda Makaroff as Nuria
- Pep Molina as Gustavo
- Carla Gordillo as Joana Prats
- Albert Pueyo as Constructor
- casting by Luci Lenox
- cinematography by Unax Mendía
- edited by Jose Luis Romeu
- music by Eugenio Mira
- costume design by Ariadna Papio
- set decoration by Deborah Chambers
- genres: Thriller, Drama
- tagline: When perception isn't reality...
- released in (6 years ago)
Music
"Agnosia" is a musical album of Formication.
- released on (8 years ago)
Group
Agnosia is a musical group.
- members:
- Juha Ekholm since
- Pilvari Pirtola since
- Erkka Vesa since
- albums: "Ignorance Is Your Religion - Disobedient Yet Responsive", "The Six Plus One Cardinals (live From the Lost Continent)", "20.09.02"
Phrases with Agnosia
- Ithomia Agnosia Zikani
- visual agnosia
- Ithomia Agnosia
- tactile agnosia
- auditory agnosia
- Apperceptive agnosia
- Ithomia Agnosia Agnosia
- Species Ithomia Agnosia
Printed books with definitions for Agnosia
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DeJong's The Neurologic Examination (2012)
DeJong's The Neurologic Examinationby William W. Campbell
Agnosia refers to the loss or impairment of the ability to know or recognize the meaning or import of a sensory stimulus, even...
Rehabilitation of Neuropsychological Disorders (2001)
A Practical Guide for Rehabilitation Professionals by Brick Johnstone, Henry H. Stonnington
Topographical agnosia refers to difficulties individuals experience with geographical orientation, either in navigating in the real...
Pocket Guide and Toolkit to Dejong's Neurologic Examination (2007)
by William W. Campbell
Agnosia refers to the loss or impairment of the ability to know or recognize the meaning or import of a sensory stimulus, even though it has been...
Neuroanatomical Basis of Clinical Neurology, Second Edition (2014)
by Orhan E. Arslan
Agnosia refers to the failure to recognize and understand the symbolic significance of sensory stimuli,
Visual agnosia is the inability to recognize objects by vision, while retaining the capability to identify the same objects with other ...
Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry (2013)
by Tom Dening, Alan Thomas
Agnosia and visuospatial dysfunction Agnosia is the failure to correctly interpret a sensory input in the presence of an intact sensory system and it is common in AD. It is due to cortical damage and can occur in any sensory modality, though ...
Brain Experience (2007)
Neuroexperiential Perspectives of Brain-mind by C.R. Mukundan
Agnosia is a condition in which the internal model or the memory trace of an object is not accessible to the patient,
Traumatic Brain Injury (2016)
Rehabilitation, Treatment, and Case Management, Third Edition by Mark J. Ashley
Agnosia refers to the clinical condition in which the patient is able to perceive visual stimuli and has efficient language capacity to name the stimuli, but recognition is lost.
Apperceptive visual agnosia is the condition in which the patient cannot distinguish one form from another, whereas visual associative visual agnosia is a disturbance of visual recognition with intact visual perception. Loss of ...
Neurological Disorders (2003)
Course and Treatment by Thomas Brandt
Visual agnosia refers to the difficulty or inability of patients to visually identify familiar stimuli despite (sufficiently) preserved...
A typical site of injury causing visual agnosia is the region of the posterior and medial temporooccipital cortex, either ...
Imaging Acute Neurologic Disease (2014)
A Symptom-Based Approach by Massimo Filippi, Jack H. Simon
Related cognitive deficits Agnosia is the loss of the ability to interpret sensory stimuli, such as sounds or images. Although the sen- sorial system is preserved, the ability to recognize a stimulus or know its meaning is lost. Teuber defined ...
Professional Paramedic, Volume II: Medical Emergencies, Maternal Health & Pediatrics (2012)
by Richard Beebe, Jeffrey C Myers
Some patients experience a phenomenon called agnosia (meaning without knowledge). Visual agnosia is the inability to recognize familiar faces or items. Agnosia is not blindness; the patient is able to see and describe objects, but just cannot ...
Neurology for the Speech-Language Pathologist (2016)
by CTI Reviews
Visual agnosia is the inability of the brain to recognize or understand visual stimulus. An individual...
Clinical Neuropsychology (2011)
by MD Kenneth M. Heilman, Edward Valenstein, MD
Agnosia is a rare neuropsychological symptom defined in the classical literature as a failure of recognition that cannot be attributed to elementary sensory defects, mental deterioration, attentional disturbances, aphasic misnaming, or to ...
Patient-based Approaches to Cognitive Neuroscience (2000)
by Todd E. Feinberg, Martha J. Farah
The term visual object agnosia refers to the impairment of object recognition in the presence of relatively intact elementary visual perception, memory, and general intellectual function. This chapter reviews the different subtypes of agnosia, ...
Neurological Rehabilitation (2013)
by Darcy Ann Umphred, Rolando T. Lazaro, Margaret Roller, Gordon Burton
agnosia is a relatively rare syndrome, and there is controversy as to whether it is simply an extension of primary visual sensory deficits (variations of cortical blindness) or whether it should be considered as a separate neuropsychological entity ...
Modern medicine (1910)
Tactual agnosia is the inability to recognize objects by touch. Such capacity may also have definite localization, insomuch as the various forms of tactual sensibility may have definite localization, but no more. Disturbance of stereognostic ...
Modern Medicine, Its Theory and Practice (1910)
In Original Contributions by American and Foreign Authors by Sir William Osler, Thomas McCrae
Tactual agnosia is the inability to recognize objects by touch. Such capacity may also have definite localization, insomuch as the various forms of tactual sensibility may have definite localization, but no more. Disturbance of stereognostic ...
The Treatment of Disease (1910)
A Manual of Practical Medicine by Reynold Webb Wilcox
Agnosia is a term applied to the inability to recognize objects because of lack of information concerning them. It is tactual if such objects cannot be recognized by touch. Visual agnosia is mind blindness, auditory is mind deafness. There are ...
Diseases of the Nervous System (1915)
A Text-book of Neurology and Psychiatry by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White
Trigeminal agnosia is a curiosity merely. Anesthesia may be due to interruption of peripheral, ...
In Search of the Alzheimer's Wanderer (2005)
A Workbook to Protect Your Loved One by Mark L. Warner
Agnosia is the declining ability of the brain to interpret images transmitted by the eyes. The eyes do not actually “ see”; ...
Identity Unknown (2014)
How acute brain disease can destroy knowledge of oneself and others by Barbara A. Wilson, Claire Robertson, Joe Mole
The agnosias Visual object agnosia Visualobject agnosia is the inability Encephalitis.
Anatomy and Physiology, The Unity of Form and Function (2016)
Medicine, Internal medicine by CTI Reviews
Agnosia is a loss of ability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells while the specific sense is not defective nor is there any significant memory loss.
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The value of this 7-letter word is 8 points. It is included in the second edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.
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