Anosodiaphoria

Anosodiaphoria is a condition in which a person who suffers disability due to brain injury seems indifferent to the existence of their handicap. Anosophoria is specifically used in association with indifference to paralysis. It is a somatosensory agnosia, or a sign of neglect syndrome. Most often anosodiaphoria is a lesion of the right parietal hemisphere.^[1]

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Neurology

Anosodiaphoria occurs after stroke of the brain.

Anosodiaphoria is thought to be related to unilateral neglect, a condition often found after damage to the non-dominant (usually the right) hemisphere of the cerebral cortex in which sufferers seem unable to attend to, or sometimes comprehend, anything on a certain side of their body (usually the left).

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See also

• Brain damage
• Unilateral neglect
• Oliver Sacks

Further reading

• Prigatano, G. and Schacter, D. (eds) (1991) Awareness of Deficit After Brain Injury: Clinical and Theoretical Issues. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505941-7
• Anosognosia: The neurology of beliefs and uncertainties. Vuilleumier, P. (2004) Cortex, 40, 9-17.
• Vilayanur S. Ramachandran (1998) Phantoms in the Brain New York: Quill (HarperColling Publishing). ISBN 0-688-17217-2
• Clare, L., & Halligan, P.W. (Eds.) (2006). Pathologies of Awareness: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.
• Amador, X.F., David, A.S. (2004) Insight and Psychosis: Awareness of Illness in Schizophrenia and Related Disorders (2nd ed). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198525680
• Amador, Xavier F. et al., Assessment of Insight in Psychosis, 150 Am. J. Psychiatry 873 (1993)
• Amador, Xavier et al., Awareness of Illness in Schizophrenia, 17 Schizophrenia Bull., 113 (1991)
• Amador, Xavier, I Am Not Sick I Don’t Need Help (2000)
• Ghaemi, S. Nassir et al., Insight and Psychiatric Disorders: a Review of the Literature, With a Focus on its Clinical Relevance for Bipolar Disorder, 27 Psychiatric Annals 782 (1997)
• Lysaker, Paul, et al., Insight and Psychosocial Treatment Compliance in Schizophrenia, 57 Psychiatry 311 (Nov. 1994)
• McEvoy, Joseph P., et al., Why Must Some Schizophrenic Patients be Involuntarily Committed? The Role of Insight, 30 Comprehensive Psychiatry, 13 (1989)
• McEvoy, Joseph, The Relationship Between Insight in Psychosis and Compliance With Medications, in Insight & Psychosis 299 (Xavier F. Amador & Anthony S. David eds. 1998)
• McGlynn, Susan & Schacter, Daniel L., The Neuropsychology of Insight: Impaired Awareness of Deficits in a Psychiatric Context, 27 Psychiatric Annals 806 (1997)
• Schwartz, Robert C., The Relationship Between Insight, Illness, and Treatment Outcome in Schizophrenia, Psychiatric Q., Spring 1998