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STROKE
Volume 43, Issue 7, Pages 1954-1956Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.112.657288
Keywords
lesion analysis; neglect; self-awareness
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Vo 1733/1-1]
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Background and Purpose-The present study investigated the lesion anatomy of anosognosia for visuospatial neglect resulting from right hemispheric stroke. Methods-In 63 patients, self-ratings of performance in paper-and-pencil tests were contrasted with external performance ratings. Lesion analysis was conducted on patient subgroups with different degrees of anosognosia but comparable visuospatial impairment. Results-Independent of the severity of visuospatial neglect per se, damage to the right angular and superior temporal gyrus was associated with higher levels of anosognosia. Conclusions-Using a novel assessment of anosognosia for spatial neglect, the present study relates stroke-induced self-awareness deficits to inferior parietal and superior temporal brain damage. (Stroke. 2012;43:1954-1956.)
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