The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 2) - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com

The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 2) - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com: "One such patient . . . hit by left hemiplegia has largely maintained her intellectual and affective faculties, for many months. She remembered past events well, was willing to talk, expressed herself correctly, her ideas were sensible; she was interested in persons known to her and asked about new people . . . No hallucinations, delirium, confusional state, confabulation. What did contrast with the apparent preservation of intelligence of this patient was that she seemed to ignore the existence of a nearly complete hemiplegia, which she had been afraid of for many years. Never did she complain about it; never did she even allude to it. If she was asked to move her right arm, she immediately executed the command. If she was asked to move the left one, she stayed still, silent, and behaved as if the question had been put to somebody else."