This poster was presented at the Thirty-Third European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, held in Bressanone, Italy, 25-30 January, 2015. Authors: D’Imperio D., Avesani R., Rossato M., Aganetto S., Moro V.
Simultagnosia nella Sindrome di Balint: uno studio sperimentale
This poster was presented at the Congresso Annuale Società Italiana di Neuropsicologia (SINP) 2014, held in Napoli, Italy, 23-24 October, 2014. Authors: D’Imperio D., Avesani R., Salgarello M., Bulgarelli C., Gobbetto V., Scandola M., Moro V.
Error-based training and emergent awareness in anosognosia for hemiplegia
Authors Moro V, Scandola M, Bulgarelli C, Avesani R, Fotopoulou A. Abstract Residual forms of awareness have recently been demonstrated in subjects affected by anosognosia for hemiplegia, but their potential effects in recovery of awareness remain to date unexplored. Emergent awareness refers…
Another perspective on anosognosia: Self-observation in video replay improves motor awareness.
Authors Besharati S, Kopelman M, Avesani R, Moro V, Fotopoulou AK. Abstract Anosognosia for hemiplegia (AHP), or unawareness of motor deficits contralateral to a brain lesion, has lasting negative implications for the management and rehabilitation of patients. A recent, bedside…
Anosognosia for apraxia: Experimental evidence for defective awareness of one’s own bucco-facial gestures
Authors Canzano L, Scandola M, Pernigo S, Aglioti SM, Moro V. Abstract Anosognosia is a multifaceted, neuro-psychiatric syndrome characterized by defective awareness of a variety of perceptuo-motor, cognitive or emotional deficits. The syndrome is also characterized by modularity, i.e. deficits…
Rubber hand illusion induced by touching the face ipsilaterally to a deprived hand: evidence for plastic ‘somatotopic’ remapping in tetraplegics
Authors Michele Scandola, Emmanuele Tidoni, Renato Avesani, Giovanni Brunelli,Salvatore M. Aglioti and Valentina Moro Abstract Background: Studies in animals and humans indicate that the interruption of body-brain connections following spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to plastic cerebral reorganization. Objective: To explore whether…