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Anosognosia and major depression in 2 patients with cerebrovascular lesions
S E Starkstein1, M L Berthier, P Fedoroff
1Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Neurology
|September 1, 1990
Abstract:
We report 2 patients who developed a neglect syndrome, anosognosia, and major depression immediately after a right hemisphere cerebrovascular lesion. These cases demonstrate that neglect, anosognosia, and major depression may coexist in the same patient, and that the presence of anosognosia does not preclude the patient's recognition of emotional impairment.