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Zusatztext For those of us who rehabilitate people with brain injuries! I consider this book a landmark event. It is probably one of the most important teaching tools for any member of the rehabilitation team. This book should be read by all who deal with these patients/clients; there is new knowledge to be found in this text even for the most sophisticated among us. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis George P. Prigatano & Daniel L. Schacter: Introduction; Edoardo Bisiach & Guiliano Geminiani: Anosognosia related to hemiplegia and hemianopia; Alan B. Rubens: Anosognosia of linguistic deficits in patients with neurological deficits; Kenneth M. Heilman: Anosognosia: Possible neuropsychological mechanisms; Donald T. Stuss: Disturbance of self-awareness after frontal system damage; Susan M. McGlynn & Alfred W. Kaszniak: Unawareness of deficits in dementia and schizophrenia; George P. Prigatano: Disturbances of self-awareness of deficit after traumatic brain injury; Daniel L. Schacter: Unawareness of deficit and unawareness of knowledge in patients with memory disorders; Elkhonon Goldberg & William B. Barr: Three possible mechanisms of unawareness of deficit; Marcia K. Johnson: Reality monitoring: Evidence from confabulation in organic brain disease patients; John F. Kihlstrom & Betsy A. Tobias: Anosognosia, consciousness, and the self; Lisa Lewis: The role of psychological factors in disordered awareness; Edwin A. Weinstein: Anosognosia and denial of illness; Daniel L. Schacter & George P. Prigatano: Forms of unawareness....
