nosognosia
nosognosia noun: the ability of a person to recognize his or her own medical disorder.
Noun
nosognosia (uncountable)
- The ability of a person to recognize his or her own medical disorder.
- In addition to the nosognosia task, our participants also completed a lexical decision analogue of this task. All parameters were as for the nosognosia task, except that i) non-target trials involved the presentation of two (different) non-words and target trials involved the presentation of a...2014 May 21, Ryan McKay, Andreas Buchmann, Nicole Germann, Shancong Yu, Peter Brugger, “Unrealistic optimism and ‘nosognosia’: Illness recognition in the healthy brain”, in Cortex, volume 61, →DOI...
- Table 3. Empirical partial correlation matrix of variables within the Memory domain. PER = Personal information recall; TSFR = time and space free recall; NOS = nosognosia; […] PER TSFR NOS […] Appendix 2: […] Orientation. The task assesses access to personal information (semantic autobiographic...2014 November 8, M. Sofia Massa, Naxian Wang, Wa-Ling Bickerton, Nele Demeyere, M. Jane Riddoch, Glyn W. Humphreys, “On the importance of cognitive profiling: A graphical modelling analysis of...
- Antonyms:
- anosognosia
Examples of nosognosia in a sentence
- In addition to the nosognosia task, our participants also completed a lexical decision analogue of this task.2014 May 21, Ryan McKay, Andreas Buchmann, Nicole Germann, Shancong Yu, Peter Brugger, “Unrealistic optimism and ‘nosognosia’: Illness...
- PER = Personal information recall; TSFR = time and space free recall; NOS = nosognosia; […] PER TSFR NOS […] Appendix 2: […] Orientation.2014 November 8, M. Sofia Massa, Naxian Wang, Wa-Ling Bickerton, Nele Demeyere, M. Jane Riddoch, Glyn W. Humphreys, “On the importance of...
Antonyms of nosognosia
Origin of nosognosia
From the Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”) and γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”).
Words formed from nosognosia
- hypernosognosia
- nosognosic
Questions about nosognosia
- What does nosognosia mean?
- Nosognosia means the ability of a person to recognize his or her own medical disorder.
- How do you use nosognosia in a sentence?
- In addition to the nosognosia task, our participants also completed a lexical decision analogue of this task.
- What part of speech is nosognosia?
- Nosognosia is a noun.
Words near nosognosia in the dictionary
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