nosognosia

English

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”) and γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”).

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Noun

nosognosia (uncountable)

1. The ability of a person to recognize his or her own medical disorder.

   Antonym: anosognosia

   • 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, page 143:

     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 non-word alongside a real word; ii) the target stimuli (real words) were not split into two categories (cf. the nosognosia task where target stimuli were either harmless or harmful illnesses); and iii) stimuli always consisted of four letters, whereas in the nosognosia task they varied between four and seven letters.

   • 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 domain-specific and domain-general deficits after stroke”, in Cortex, volume 71, →DOI, page 195:

     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 knowledge), orientation in time and space and awareness of deficits (nosognosia).

   • 2019 July 1, Maxime Montembeault, Simona M. Brambati, “Differential patterns of domain-specific nosognosia across the Alzheimer’s disease spectrum.”, in Alzheimer’s & Dementia‎^[1], volume 15, number 7, →DOI, page P795:

     This study unveils the evolution of nosognosia on the AD spectrum, from hypernosognosia presented in CTRL, SMC and E-MCI, to the mild domain-specific anosognosia presented in L-MCI and finally, the more severe global anosognosia in AD patients.

Derived terms

• hypernosognosia
• nosognosic

 

Translations

ability of a person to recognize personal defects

• Finnish: sairaudentunto (fi)
• German: Krankheitseinsicht f