Anosognosia is a condition in which a person with a disability is cognitively unaware of having ... have a mental illness. There is evidence that 'anosognosia' related to schizophrenia may be the result of frontal lobe damage. E. Fuller Torrey ...

SUMMARY: Impaired awareness of illness (anosognosia) is a major problem because it is the single largest reason why individuals with ...

This lack of awareness, or insight, into their own illness is known as Anosognosia. Anosognosia can occur in any mental illness, regardless of its severity, although ...

Anosognosia is a result of changes to the brain. It's not just stubbornness or outright denial, which is a defense mechanism some people use ...

Anosognosia in schizophrenia: Hidden in plain sight. Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience, 11(5-6), 10–17. Abstract. Objective: Poor insight is a cardinal symptom ...

About half of people living with schizophrenia don't understand or fully appreciate that they have a mental illness. They may insist that they ...

Anosognosia. Anosognosia, also called "lack of insight," is a symptom of severe mental illness experienced by some that impairs a person's ability to understand ...

Anosognosia is common in people with serious mental illness. Doctors think about 40% of people with bipolar disorder and 50% of those with ...

Early studies of anosognosia indicated that approximately 30% of people with schizophrenia and 20% of people with bipolar disorder experienced "severe" lack of ...

Available neurobiological and neurocognitive evidence linking the phenomenon to core pathophysiology of schizophrenia justifies extension of the anosognosia ...