Visual agnosia ( both apperceptive and associative ) is prevalent in Alzheimer s Disease ( AD ) patients.
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Damage to the left hemisphere of the brain has been explicitly implicated in the associative form of visual agnosia.
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Apperceptive visual agnosia is associated with damage to one hemisphere, specifically damage to the posterior sections of the right hemisphere.
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Gradual extension of NFT throughout the occipital, parietal, and temporal regions devoted to vision occur resulting in visual agnosia.
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Lissauer, a pupil of Wernicke, described a case of visual agnosia as a disconnection between the visual and language areas.
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Individuals with apperceptive visual agnosia display the ability to see contours and outlines when shown an object, but they experience difficulty if asked to categorize objects.
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Eidetic memory can still occur in those with visual agnosia, who, unlike visual thinkers, may be limited in the use of visualization skills for mental reasoning.
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Commonly, visual agnosia presents as an inability to recognize an object in the absence of other explanations, such as blindness or partial blindness, anomia, memory loss, etc ..
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The title article of " The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat " is about a man with visual agnosia and was the subject of a 1986 opera by Michael Nyman.
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While most cases of visual agnosia are seen in older adults who have had extensive brain damage, there are also cases of young children with less brain damage during developmental years acquiring the symptoms.
