AsomatognosiaFromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopediaJumptonavigationJumptosearchMedicalconditionAsomatognosiaSpecialtyNeurologyAsomatognosiaisaneurologicaldisordercharacterizedaslossofrecognitionorawarenessofpartofthebody.[1][2]Thefailuretoacknowledge,forexample,alimb,maybeexpressedverballyorasapatternofneglect.Thelimbmayalsobeattributedtoanotherperson,adelusionknownassomatoparaphrenia.However,theycanbeshowntheirlimbandthiserroristemporarilycorrected.[3][4]Someauthorshavefocusedontheprevalenceofhemispatialneglectinsuchpatients.[5]Asomatognosiaistheinabilitytofeel,recognize,orbeconsciousofone'sownspecificbodypartsorbodilyconditions(Whishaw,2015).Generally,asomatognosiaoftenarisesfromdamagetotherightparietallobe(Whishaw,2015).Evidenceindicatesthatdamagetotherighthemisphereoftenresultsfromastrokeorpre-existinghemispatialneglect,orinattentiontotheleftvisualfield(Antoniello,2016)(Keenan,2004).Individualswhosufferfromsomatoparaphrenia,aspecificformofasomatognosia,ignoreordenyownershipofabodypartcontralateraltothebrainlesion(Feinberg,1990).Althoughthisconditioncanaffectoneorbothsidesofthebody,mostpatientsexhibittheinabilitytorecognizelimbs/bodyparts(i.e.arm,leg,head,breast)ontheleftsideoftheirbodyastheirown(Keenan,2004).Whileindividualswithasomatognosiatypicallysufferlargelesionsacrossseveraltemporoparietalsectors,thosewithsomatoparaphreniaalsosufferlesionsintherightmedialandorbitofrontalregionsofthebrain(Feinberg2010).Contents1Patientcases2Relatedconditions3Seealso4ReferencesPatientcases[edit]Inmostcommonlyobservedinstances,individualswiththisconditionfailtorecognizeandsensetheirleftarmaftersufferinglesionstotherighthemisphere(Keenan,2004).Inonespecificinstance,apatientsufferingfromasomatognosiatriedtothrowherownleftarmintoagarbagecanbecauseshebelieveditwasherhusband'sarmrepeatedlyfallingonheranddisruptinghersleep(Keenan,2004).Evenwhenpatientsaretoldthatthebodypartbelongstothem,manywilldenytherealityandremainfirmintheirbeliefthatitisnotapartofthem.Thereisacaseinwhichapatientwit