Talk:Agnosia

Formatting Agnosia Types List

Under the section "Types," visual agnosia has this description: "Visual agnosia is associated with lesions of the left occipital lobe and temporal lobes. Many are the inability to recognize objects. Subtypes:". Clearly "subtypes" is meant to refer to some of the types described below visual agnosia. However, the types listed are not organized in the manner this implies. For a short-term fix, I am considering deleting "Subtypes:" from the description of visual agnosia.

Well, "tactile agnosia" is treated almost the same way; "Tactile agnosia involve significant difficulty recognising physical feedback. Subtypes:". A decision should be made whether to categorize the different types depending on... sense affected? Or to let the list remain without any sub-categorization. The first option would be best served by reformatting the list to look more like an outline, whereas the second requires removal of the misleading "subtype:".

Fake.

Automobilia agnosia? Sounds fake to me. Could somebody provide a reference?

Alphabetize & citation needed

First, this list should be alphabetized. I looked for the above poster's Automobilia agnosia and then realized the thing wasn't alphabetized and although I can search for it, it'd be nice if people would not have to go to the trouble IMHO.

Then, I don't know how to add one of those 'citation needed' things to the article, but I believe there needs to be one for this entry: Prosopagnosia also known as faceblindness and facial agnosia: Patients cannot consciously recognize familiar faces, sometimes even including their own. This is often misperceived as an inability to remember names. Citation needed tag here? It is often misperceived as the inability to remember names? Who says? How do I know that this is true? (You know--I don't have to go through this--the whole purpose of citations.) I realize others need citations as well but this one just particularly bugs me for some reason. --70.59.146.117 (talk) 10:13, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Translation

I think a more appropriate translation of agnosia would be "lack/absence of knowledge" since the Greek prefix a- means "without, not, lacking in" as in atheist, amoral, apathy. I know the term is translated as "loss of knowledge" e.g. in "Principles of Neural Science" by Kandel et al. but that doesn't make it right. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Howeworth (talk • contribs) 15:51, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Agnosia for scenes?

Agnosia for scenes isn't here. I believe it isn't the same thing as topographical agnosia as described here, but I'm no expert. The issues described by Oliver Sacks in his book The Mind's Eye were I think labelled as topographical agnosia, but I'm not convinced was the same as the disorder described here.