TABLE 6-5.

Different Forms of Anosognosia That Can Manifest After Right Brain Stroke^a

Term	Anosognosia type
Anosodiaphoria	Lack of emotional concern for deficits that are verbally acknowledged
Anosognosia with causal attribution abnormality	Acknowledgment of the deficit without linking the problem to a neurologic issue (eg, a patient saying, “I don’t feel like moving my left arm right now.”); inconsistent verbal acknowledgment (patient reports that others believe the deficit is present)
Anosognosia with implicit awareness	Conscious disavowal of deficits that are acknowledged through behavior (eg, patient claims the ability to walk but never actually tries to get out of bed)
Anosognosia with modality specificity	Acknowledgment of one deficit but not others (eg, patient is aware of a visual field cut but not aware of hemiplegia)
Anosognosia without implicit awareness	Combined explicit and implicit disavowal of deficits (both behavioral and verbal reports) without acknowledgment of deficits

^aData from Ofrei MD, et al.⁷¹