What is it about?
Some degenerative brain diseases cause asymmetric brain diseases and different behavioural disorders. When the atrophy prevail on the right side the diagnosis is more difficult because patients are not aeare of their emotional and behavioural disorders. These patients are, therefore considered as affected by psychiatric disorders, rather than by degenerative brain diseases
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Why is it important?
It is important to make an appropriate diagnosis and treatment
Perspectives
These data are important because they help to explain some aspects of thye right hemisphere functioning
Guido Gainotti
Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
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This page is a summary of: Anosognosia in degenerative brain diseases: The role of the right hemisphere and of its dominance for emotions, Brain and Cognition, November 2018, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2018.08.002.
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