Restoring awareness: a review of rehabilitation in anosognosia for hemiplegia

• Sahba Besharati ^[1] ; Laura Crucianelli ^[2] ; Aikaterini Fotopoulou ^[3]
  1. [1] University of Cape Town

     University of Cape Town

     City of Cape Town, Sudáfrica

     
  2. [2] University of Hertfordshire

     University of Hertfordshire

     Welwyn Hatfield, Reino Unido

     
  3. [3] University College London

     University College London

     Reino Unido

     

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• Localización: Revista Chilena de Neuropsicología, ISSN 0718-0551, Vol. 9, Nº. Extra 1, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Rehabilitación Neuropsicológica en Chile), págs. 31-37
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Disturbances in body awareness offer important insights into neurocognitive processes involved in the construction of the bodily self. This review will focus on a specific disorder of awareness, namely, anosognosia for hemiplegia (AHP), or the denial of motor deficits contralateral to a brain lesion. Recently some progress has been made towards the management and rehabilitation of AHP, however to date no evidence-based treatment exists. Firstly, recent research on AHP will be reviewed, with the aim of providing an overview of the etiology, clinical presentation and assessment of the syndrome, as well as the major neurological and neuropsychological explanations. This article will then focus on recent advances in the management and rehabilitation of AHP, using a case study example of intervention-based (i.e. video replay) motor awareness recovery (Fotopoulou, Rudd, Holmes & Kopelman, 2009). Finally, a dynamic theoretical model of the multifaceted nature of anosognosia, using a predictive coding framework, will be proposed and future directions for research will also be discussed.