Neurosurgeons, like Dr. Aria Sabit of the Michigan Brain and Spine Group PLLC, are aware of the possible occurrence of anosognosia in patients suffering from brain injury, stroke, and other mental illnesses.
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Anosognosia is the lack of awareness of a neurologic impairment or illness usually affecting the left side of the body. It is different from the denial of an illness which is a strategy where a patient ignores or partially avoids that which causes too much stress. Anosognosia is a syndrome in which brain trauma causes changes in the brain cells, commonly in the right frontal or parietal lobe, leading to partial or complete unawareness of a decline in neurologic functions, such as memory, general thinking skills like math or language skills, emotions, and body movements.
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Neurosurgeons such as Dr. Aria Sabit would differentiate the syndrome from stroke that typically leads to impaired sensory systems. The sense of smell, vision, hearing, touch, and taste of patients with anosognosia are usually fine. But the damage in the right parietal lobe of the brain appears to disconnect sensory information from the processes that are responsible for spatial and bodily representations, causing the inability of the sufferer to comprehend sensory information. For instance, a person may be looking at a girl seating on a chair, yet he cannot understand what he’s seeing because the brain cannot translate the information that enters the eye and the optic nerve.
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Dr. Aria Sabit has been in the news for successfully treating Chris Scott, a neurosurgery patient at McLaren/Lapeer Regional Hospital who had been battling repetitive motion injury for the past 10 years. To learn more, go to BrainandSpineBlog.Wordpress.Com.
