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Alexia
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Parietal
Inability to percieve visual words
Loss of the ability to read
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Auditory agnosia
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Parietal
Failure to identify and respond appropriately to complex sounds
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Colour agnosia
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Parietal
Inability to recognise colours despite intact colour perception
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Tactile agnosia (astereognosis)
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Parietal
Inability to recognise objects by touch without visual input
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Visual object agnosia
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Parietal
Inability to recognise objects presented visually
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Anosognosia
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Parietal
Failure to percieve illness, a defect, or the denial of a defect, or a lack of awareness for a hemiplegia
Non-dominant hemisphere
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Anosodiaphoria
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Parietal
Indifference to, or lack of concern about, the illness or deficit
Non-dominant hemisphere
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Asomatognosia/ Somatoparapheria
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Parietal
Disturbance of body scheme, lack of awareness of body structure and a failure to recognise body parts and their relationship to each other
Dominant hemisphere
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Autotopagnosia
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Parietal
Disturbance of body scheme, lack of awareness of body structure and a failure to recognise body parts and their relationship to each other
Left parietal lobe
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Prosopagnosia
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Parietal
Inability to recognise faces
Non-dominant hemisphere
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Visuospatial disorders
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Parietal
Spatial relations disorder; size, distance, laterality, shape
Non-dominant hemisphere
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Visuoperceptial disorders
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Parietal
Inability to distinguish between different types of forms
Non-dominant hemisphere
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Topographical disorientation
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Parietal
Inability to orientate with an environment and following non-verbal maps
Non-dominant hemisphere
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Unilateral neglect
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Parietal
Person appears to ignore sensory information from the left
Usually right hemisphere
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Ideomotor apraxia
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Parietal
Inability to perform motor tasks on command which can be performed automatically
Dominant hemisphere
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