Awareness in Apraxia and Agnosia

Abstract

Disconnected awareness in a diagonistic dyspraxic patient and degraded awareness in a visually agnosic patient were investigated. The first case was a male patient with disconnection syndrome including diagonistic dyspraxia. Speech regulation of interruptive actions in his left hand was introduced for the purpose of reorganization of bimanual activity. As a result of the therapy, he became able to restrain his left hand activities, and be independent in activities of daily living. The second case was a male patient with visual agnosia whose dominant complaint was face recognition impairment. Measurable recovery of visual perception was achieved through activities planned to reorganize his visual perception with intact kinesthetic information.

Keywords:

• diagonistic dyspraxia
• visual agnosia
• functional reorganization