agnosia

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Foreman says acute visual agnosia (the brain's inability to recognize familiar objects) is an indication of a probable brain tumor or stroke.

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  • Foreman says acute visual agnosia (the brain's inability to recognize familiar objects) is an indication of a probable brain tumor or stroke. —  Cinema Blend Feeds
  • Foreman notices that Picasso's agnosia seems to have disappeared while in the hospital once he spies a sketch of his girlfriend he's completed. —  Cinema Blend Feeds
  • Taub suggests that the drugs could've set off a dormant neurological condition and Foreman thinks it could be Kluver-Bucy Syndrome (bilateral lesions in the temporal lobes) which explains the visual agnosia and hypersexuality. —  Cinema Blend Feeds
  • Picasso's visual agnosia returns when he can't recognize Taub and Thirteen. —  Cinema Blend Feeds
  • In addition, lesions of the insula often manifest as deficits in sound or speech recognition (auditory agnosia) and speech production. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. Greek agnōsiā, ignorance : a-, without; see a-1 + gnōsis, knowledge (from gignōskein, to know; see gnō- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Greek - privative + γνῶσις, knowledge: see gnosis.
 

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/ægˈnoʊsiə/
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