Agnosia: Agnosia is a rare disorder characterized by an inability to recognize and identify objects or persons despite having knowledge of the characteristics of ... more about Agnosia.
Agnosia: Agnosia is a loss of ability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells while the specific sense is not defective nor is there any significant memory loss. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Agnosia is available below.
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Prognosis for Agnosia: Agnosia can compromise quality of life. (Source: excerpt from NINDS Agnosia Information Page: NINDS)
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Agnosia is a rare disorder characterized by an inability to recognize and identify objects or persons despite having knowledge of the characteristics of the objects or persons. (Source: excerpt from NINDS Agnosia Information Page: NINDS)
Inability to recognize objects by use of the senses - (Source - WordNet 2.1)
Agnosia is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Agnosia, or a subtype of Agnosia,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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