Awareness of Deficit After Brain Injury

by George P. Prigatano

Book Overview

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 or severity of their deficits, even when they are easily noticed by others. In addressing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195059417
• ISBN13: 9780195059410
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

An amazing book detailing a difficult phenomenon

The book explains a condition called anosognosia which brain injured individuals may experience. As the title explains, anosognosia basically describes an unawareness of deficits. Although much has been written about brain injuries, this extremely important facet of the recovery process is rarely addressed. I am brain injured myself and learned more about my own condition from this book than I have learned in all the other seventeen post-morbid years put together. It is written in highly technical language, more for professionals, I'd guess, than the lay person. All the same, I (a lay person) found it great reading and had no trouble understanding its content.