What is agnosia?
Agnosia is a condition in which someone cannot correctly interpret sensory stimuli. This condition is most classically caused by brain damage and cannot be cured, although patients can work with therapists who can help them cope with Agnnosia. This condition may occur in conjunction with other neurological disorders, and this condition may actually be a sign that someone has a neurological problem.
In visual agnosia, the patient does not recognize the objects he sees. Patients suffering from auditory agnosia cannot interpret sounds correctly and patients with tactile agnosia have difficulty recognizing physical feelings. For example, someone can see an apple and will not be able to say that it is red or realize that it is an apple. Brain damage can cause the appearance of brain lesions, areas of brain. In some cases, the brain may compensate for the lesion by redirecting information to the undamaged area, but in other cases the brain does not have to cope and the patient develops agnosia.
The term "agnosia" comes from Greek for "unconscious" and the condition can have different forms. For example, people can experience Alexy in which they are unable to understand text or problems with color recognition in which they cannot recognize and name colors. Some other variants can cause people to interpret or not be able to hear. The condition may differ significantly from the patient to the patient, reflecting the complexity of the human brain.
In actual cases, the patient's meaning is not damaged, there is simply a problem with the interpretation of the brain of this meaning. For example, if someone seems deaf after a brain injury, it sees to be classified as Agnosia only if the feeling of hearing is intact, but the brain cannot interpret this information. The condition reflects the actual loss of knowledge, rather than a sensory or intellectual deficit.
In patients, agnosia may be extremely frustrating as it can limit their SCHOpnost to communicate with other people or understand the world. For people who live highly functional lives, agnosie can cause depression because the patient is trying to adapt. Neurologists and therapists can work with patients to help them learn to work with the loss of knowledge and provide tools that can be used for expression and communication in the case of patients who fight these aspects of human interaction.